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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | appetite, appreciation, ardor, brio, delectation, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, fervor, heart, liking, palate, passion, pleasure, relish, savor, taste, verve, zeal, zest |
| Antonyms: | apathy, reluctance, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | liking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, palate, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, proneness, propensity, relish, soft spot, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, velleity, weakness, will |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | relish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great appreciation of something |
| Synonyms: | appetite, bias, delectation, diversion, enjoying, enjoyment, fancy, flair, flavor, fondness, gusto, heart, leaning, liking, love, loving, palate, partiality, penchant, pleasure, predilection, prejudice, propensity, sapidity, sapor, savor, smack, stomach, tang, taste, zest |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | taste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, preference |
| Synonyms: | affection, appetence, appetite, attachment, bent*, comprehension, cup of tea, desire, disposition, druthers, fancy, fondness, gusto, heart, leaning, liking, palate, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, prepossession, relish, soft spot, stomach*, tendency, thing*, type, understanding, weakness, zest |
| Antonyms: | disinclination, dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | taste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity to sense flavor |
| Synonyms: | appetence, appetite, gout, gustation, palate, stomach, taste buds, tongue |
| Main Entry: | roof |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | building covering |
| Synonyms: | canopy, ceiling, covering, crown, cupola, dome, gable, gambrel, house, palate, parapet, rafter, shelter, slate, summit, truss |
| Main Entry: | taste bud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taste cell |
| Synonyms: | gustatory cell, lingua, palate, taste bulb, taste goblet, taste hair, tongue |
| Main Entry: | velum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering |
| Synonyms: | membrane, palate, veil |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
-adjectives
in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic., to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.
-adverbs
elegantly
-phrases
nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | vulgarity |
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