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| Main Entry: |
taste
[teyst]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | judge, try |
| Synonyms: | assay, bite, chew, criticize, differentiate, discern, distinguish, eat, enjoy, lick, nibble, partake, perceive, relish, sample, savor, sense, sip, test, touch, try the flavor of |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
| 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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| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grip or tear with teeth |
| Synonyms: | champ, chaw, chaw on, chew, chomp, clamp, crunch, crush, cut, eat, gnaw, hold, lacerate, masticate, munch, nibble, nip, pierce, pinch, rend, ruminate, seize, sever, snap, take a chunk out of, taste, tooth, wound |
| Main Entry: | dip into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try, sample |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, browse, dabble, flip through, get, glance at, glance over, leaf through, peruse, play at, rifle through, run over, run through, scan, seize, skim, take, taste, thumb through |
| Main Entry: | feel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | experience |
| Synonyms: | accept, acknowledge, appear, appreciate, be affected, be aware of, be excited, be impressed, be sensible of, be sensitive, be turned on to, comprehend, discern, encounter, endure, enjoy, exhibit, get in touch, get vibes, get*, go through*, have, have a hunch, have funny feeling, have vibes, know, meet, note, notice, observe, perceive, receive, remark, resemble, savor, see, seem, sense, suffer, suggest, take to heart, taste, undergo, understand, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | know |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be familiar with |
| Synonyms: | associate, be acquainted with, be friends with, experience, feel, fraternize, get acquainted, have dealings with, identify, savor, see, sustain, taste, undergo |
| Antonyms: | be ignorant, forget |
| Main Entry: | lick |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch with tongue |
| Synonyms: | brush, calm, caress, fondle, glance, gloss, graze, lap, lap against, move over, osculate, pass over, play, quiet, ripple, rub, soothe, stroke, sweep, taste, tongue, touch, wash |
| Main Entry: | nosh |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | snack |
| Synonyms: | eat between meals, munch, nibble, pick at, taste |
| Main Entry: | relish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look forward to; appreciate |
| Synonyms: | admire, be fond of, cherish, delight in, dig*, enjoy, fancy, go, go for, like, luxuriate in, mind, prefer, revel in, savor, taste |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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