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Webster 1913 Edition
Untaste
Un-taste′
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ taste
.] To deprive of a taste for a thing.
[R.]
Daniel.
Definition 2024
untaste
untaste
English
Verb
untaste (third-person singular simple present untastes, present participle untasting, simple past and past participle untasted)
- To deprive of a taste for something.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Daniel to this entry?)
- To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
- 2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:
- “Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!
- 2015, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40:
- He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.
- 2015, Jen Rose Yokel, Ruins & Kingdoms - Page 45:
- Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?
- 2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:
Etymology 2
From un- (“absence of”) + taste.
Noun
untaste (uncountable)
- Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness
- 1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:
- Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.
- 1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66:
- Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.
- 2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness:
- [...] only that mind could appreciate the true meaning of ****, a place of virtual nonexistence, of absolute cold, of emptiness beyond all sensations, an abstract vacuum of untouch, untaste, unhope, unlove. An urplace that negated every word, [...]
- 1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:
Italian
Verb
untaste