Synonyms for distasteful
dɪsˈteɪst fəldis·taste·ful

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1. distastefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, pleasing

2. distastefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   pleasing, pleasant

3. distastefuladjective

   Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, pleasing

4. distastefuladjective

   distasteful language

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, pleasing

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1. distasteful

   Synonyms:
   clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, meretricious, offensive, rough, rude, rugged, tawdry

   Antonyms:
   artistic, chaste, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic, esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice, tasteful, tasty

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1. distasteful, unsavory, unsavouryadjective

   not pleasing in odor or taste

   Synonyms:
   loathly, unsavory, disgustful, disgusting, yucky, unsavoury, offensive, wicked, revolting, loathsome, foul, repelling, repellant, repellent, skanky

   Antonyms:
   toothsome, palatable, inoffensive

2. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective

   highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

   "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

   Synonyms:
   filthy, noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, marked-up, foul, implike, repellent, mischievous, arch, sickening, dirty, unsavoury, offensive, cruddy, rebarbative, ill-scented, foetid, vile, severe, sinful, pixilated, disgustful, stinking, resistant, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), foul-smelling, loathsome, prankish, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, unholy, skanky, nasty, unsporting, terrible, impish, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, unsavory, fouled, puckish, queasy, repellant

   Antonyms:
   palatable, toothsome, inoffensive

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1. distastefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   nauseous, loathsome, disgusting, unpalatable, unsavory

2. distastefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   disagreeable, offensive, unpleasant, unpleasing

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1. distastefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   unpleasant offensive, repugnant, unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable

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1. List of paraphrases for "distasteful":

   unpleasant, tasteless, tacky, disagreeable, repugnant, disgusting, unsavoury, repulsive, off-putting

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1. Jeff Van Drew:

   If there isn't anything unbelievably unusual and there's just some distasteful issues -- which there are, no doubt -- I think we move forward, we have an election, and then we take it from there.

2. Eleanor Janega:

   ' Accuracy' is always focusing on the distasteful aspects of a society, but never the pleasurable ones.

3. Meir Bulka:

   As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers, all the Israelis felt this was very distasteful.

4. Pindar:

   Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

5. Albert Einstein:

   One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.