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Relish vs Disrelish - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between relish and disrelish

is that relish is to taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of; to take great pleasure in while disrelish is to deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

As nouns the difference between relish and disrelish

is that relish is a pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing while disrelish is a lack of relish: distaste.

As verbs the difference between relish and disrelish

is that relish is (obsolete|intransitive) to taste; to have a specified taste or flavour while disrelish is to have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.

relish

English

(wikipedia relish)

Noun

(es)
  • A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 12.
    • A Laplander or Negro has no notion of the relish of wine.
  • * Milton
    • Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained / From this delightful fruit, nor known till now / True relish , tasting.
  • * Addison
    • When liberty is gone, / Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish .
  • Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • It preserves some relish of old writing.
  • A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
  • * Macaulay
    • a relish for whatever was excellent in arts
  • * Cowper
    • I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.
  • That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.
  • A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
  • * '>citation
  • In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.
  • *, II.3.3:
    • honourable enterprises are accompanied with dangers and damages, as experience evinceth; they will make the rest of thy life relish the better.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.
  • * Woodward
    • A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.
  • To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeable, to make appetizing.
  • * Dryden
    • a sav'ry bit that served to relish wine
  • To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of; to take great pleasure in.
    • He relishes their time together.
    I don't relish the idea of going out tonight.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now I begin to relish thy advice.
  • * Atterbury
    • He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honours which he enjoys.

    Synonyms

    * appreciate * delight in * enjoy * like * revel

    disrelish

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A lack of relish: distaste
  • *{{quote-book, year=1690, author=John Locke, title=An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish . }}
  • * Burke
    • Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
  • *1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42
    • that those eyes may glow
    With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn
    Peers with disrelish , grey, barren, and cold.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=J. Fenimore Cooper, title=The Bravo, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian. }}
  • *1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 685:
  • *:They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish , under the belief that they were economising.
  • Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
    • (Milton)

    Verb

  • To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
    • (Alexander Pope)
  • To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
    • (Milton)