taste
n
1 flavour, relish, savour, smack, tang
2 bit, bite, dash, drop, morsel, mouthful, nip, sample, sip, soupçon, spoonful, swallow, titbit, touch
3 appetite, bent, desire, fancy, fondness, inclination, leaning, liking, palate, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, relish
4 appreciation, cultivation, culture, discernment, discrimination, elegance, grace, judgment, perception, polish, refinement, sophistication, style
5 correctness, decorum, delicacy, discretion, nicety, politeness, propriety, restraint, tact, tactfulness
vb
6 differentiate, discern, distinguish, perceive
7 assay, nibble, relish, sample, savour, sip, test, try
8 have a flavour of, savour of, smack
9 come up against, encounter, experience, feel, have knowledge of, know, meet with, partake of, undergo
Antonyms
, n
1 blandness, insipidity, tastelessness
3 disinclination, dislike, distaste, hatred, loathing
4 lack of discernment, lack of judgment, mawkishness, tackiness, tastelessness
5 bawdiness, blueness, coarseness, crudeness, impropriety, indelicacy, obscenity (informal) tactlessness, unsubtlety
vb
9 fail to achieve, miss, remain ignorant of