Taste Definition

tāst

tasted, tastes, tasting

verb

tasted, tastes, tasting

To discern or recognize flavors by the sense of taste; have the sense of taste.

Webster's New World

To test by touching.

Webster's New World

To test the flavor of by putting a little in one's mouth.

Webster's New World

To eat or drink, esp. a small amount of.

Webster's New World

To receive the sensation of, as for the first time; experience; have.

To have tasted freedom at last.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
partake of
roll over in the mouth
touch
sip
sample
try
suck
lick
know
feel
perceive
undergo
prove
suffer
see

Antonyms:

noun

tastes

This sense in combination with the senses of smell and touch, which together receive a sensation of a substance in the mouth.

American Heritage Medicine

That one of the five senses that is stimulated by contact of a substance with the taste buds and is capable of distinguishing basically among sweet, sour, salt, and bitter: the flavor of any specific substance is usually recognized by its combined taste, smell, and texture.

Webster's New World

The sensation of sweet, sour, salty, or bitter qualities produced by a substance placed in the mouth.

American Heritage

The act of tasting.

Webster's New World

The unified sensation produced by any of these qualities plus a distinct smell and texture; flavor.

American Heritage

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Antonyms:

Antonyms:
lot
hatred
hate
dislike
disinclination
tawdriness
dowdiness
distaste vulgarity

idiom

in (good, poor, <i>etc.</i>) taste

in a form, style, or manner showing a (good, poor, etc.) sense of beauty, excellence, fitness, propriety, etc.

Webster's New World

in taste

in good taste

Webster's New World

to one's taste

pleasing to one
so as to please one

Webster's New World

to taste

so that the flavor is pleasing
simmer, and season to taste

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Other Word Forms of Taste

Noun

Singular:

taste

Plural:

tastes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Taste

in (good, poor, etc.) taste
in taste
to one's taste
to taste

Origin of Taste

From Middle English tasten, from Old French taster from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply"), from tangere (“to touch"). Replaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste") (from Old English smacian (“to taste")), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack") (from Old English smeccan (“to taste")), Middle English buriȝen (“to taste") (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste")).

From Wiktionary
Middle English tasten to touch, taste from Old French taster from Vulgar Latin tastāre probably alteration of Latin taxāre probably frequentative of tangere to touch tag- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition