taste
Plural: tastes
Noun
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- "the candy left him with a bad taste"
- "the melon had a delicious taste"
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"
- "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
- a brief experience of something
- "he got a taste of life on the wild side"
- "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- "take a taste--you'll like it"
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Verb
Verb Forms: tasted, tasting, tastes
- To perceive the flavor of something through the mouth.
- have flavor; taste of something
- perceive by the sense of taste
- "Can you taste the garlic?"
- take a sample of
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- "This tastes of nutmeg"
- distinguish flavors
- "We tasted wines last night"
- experience briefly
- "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"
- To sample the flavor of something orally.
- To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- To experience.
- To take sparingly.
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- To try by the touch; to handle.
Adj
- Deliberate misspelling of tasty.
Examples
- Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
- He had a strange taste in his mouth.
- His taste was impaired by an illness.
- I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
- I have developed a taste for fine wine.
- I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
- I wanted to taste victory, but my opponent’s QWERTY play was too strong.
- Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.
- The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
- They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- Venison has a strong taste.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tastāre, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buriȝen (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).
Synonyms
appreciation, discernment, gustation, gustatory modality, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, mouthful, penchant, perceptiveness, predilection, preference, sample, savor, savour, sense of taste, smack, taste perception, taste sensation, tasting, try, try out, culture, gust, hint, impression, refinement, smake, smatch, style, taste, trial
Scrabble Score: 5
taste: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtaste: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
taste: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary