taste
The flavor you feel in your mouth when you eat or drink something.
The particular flavor experienced when eating or drinking a substance.
To put food or drink in your mouth to know its flavor.
To experience or test the flavor of something by putting it in your mouth.
What a person likes or enjoys, such as in music, clothes, or food.
A person's personal liking or preference for certain things, such as food, art, music, or fashion.
A little bit of something to see what it is like.
A small amount of something taken to test its flavor or quality, or to experience it briefly.
- Base: taste
- Plural: taste, tastes
- Base: taste
- 3rd Person Singular: tastes
- Present Participle: tasting
- Past: tasted
acquired taste
1something liked only after getting used to it
Something you do not like at first but enjoy after trying many times.
- Black coffee is an acquired taste for many people.
- Sushi can be an acquired taste.
in bad taste
1offensive or inappropriate style or behavior
Something that is rude, offensive, or not polite.
- That joke was really in bad taste and upset many people.
- Wearing jeans to the formal wedding was considered in bad taste.
leave a bad taste in someone's mouth
1cause lingering bad feeling about something
To make someone feel unhappy or uncomfortable after something happens.
- The unfair ending left a bad taste in my mouth.
- His rude comments left a bad taste in her mouth.
to each their own (taste)
1everyone has their own preferences
People like different things, and that's okay.
- I don't like that style, but to each their own.
- She loves spicy food—well, to each their own.