different between displeasure vs disrelish

English

Etymology

From Old French desplaisir

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?pl???/
• (US) enPR: d?s-pl?zh??r, IPA^(key): /d?s?pl???/
• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

displeasure (usually uncountable, plural displeasures)

1. A feeling of being displeased with something or someone; dissatisfaction; disapproval.
2. That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offence; injury.
3. A state of disgrace or disfavour.

Synonyms

• (feeling of being displeased with someone or something): discontent, discontentment, dissatisfaction, unhappiness
• (pain, discomfort): ache, discomfort, pain
• (disapproval): condemnation, disapprobation, disapproval

Antonyms

• (feeling of being displeased with someone or something): contentment, happiness, pleasure, satisfaction
• (pain, discomfort): ease
• (disapproval): approbation, approval, blessing

Derived terms

• displeasurable
• take a displeasure, take displeasure
• displeasurement

Translations

Verb

displeasure (third-person singular simple present displeasures, present participle displeasuring, simple past and past participle displeasured)

1. (archaic) To displease or offend.

English

Etymology

From dis- +? relish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???l??/

Noun

disrelish (uncountable)

1. A lack of relish: distaste
   • The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are told, was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him

   • 1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

     Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42

     […] that those eyes may glow

     With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn

     Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 685:

     They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.

2. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

Verb

disrelish (third-person singular simple present disrelishes, present participle disrelishing, simple past and past participle disrelished)

1. (transitive) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
   • September 1, 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished

2. (transitive) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.