different between dread vs distaste

English

Etymology

From Middle English dreden, from Old English dr?dan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondr?dan (“to fear, dread”), from and- +? r?dan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread.

Akin to Old Saxon antdr?dan, andr?dan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intr?tan (“to fear”), Middle High German entr?ten (“to fear, dread, frighten”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?d, IPA^(key): /d??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

dread (third-person singular simple present dreads, present participle dreading, simple past and past participle dreaded)

1. (transitive) To fear greatly.
2. To anticipate with fear.
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]

     Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.

3. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.

   • Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

4. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

Derived terms

• dreadable
• dreadly
• dreadworthy

Translations

Noun

dread (countable and uncountable, plural dreads)

1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     the secret dread of divine displeasure
2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

   • The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
3. Somebody or something dreaded.
4. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene

     Una, his dear dread

5. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
6. A Rastafarian.
7. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock

Derived terms

• dreaden
• dreadful
• dreadless
• dreadsome

Translations

Adjective

dread (comparative dreader, superlative dreadest)

1. Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
2. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

Derived terms

• dreadly

Translations

See also

• dreadlocks
• dreadnought

Anagrams

• adder, dared, radde, re-add, readd

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• dreads

Noun

dread m (plural dreads)

1. Clipping of dreadlock.

English

Etymology

dis- +? taste

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s-t?st?, IPA^(key): /d?s?te?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st

Noun

distaste (usually uncountable, plural distastes)

1. A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
2. (obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Adversity

     Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes

3. (obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Adversity

     Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

4. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.

Derived terms

• distasteful

Translations

Verb

distaste (third-person singular simple present distastes, present participle distasting, simple past and past participle distasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
2. (intransitive) to be distasteful; to taste bad
3. (obsolete, transitive) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
   • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

References

• distaste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• staidest

Italian

Verb

distaste

1. second-person plural past historic of distare
2. second-person plural imperfect subjunctive of distare

Anagrams

• destasti
• dettassi

Portuguese

Verb

distaste

1. second-person singular (tu) preterite indicative of distar

Spanish

Verb

distaste

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) preterite indicative form of distar.