untaste

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈteɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪst

Etymology 1

From un- +‎ taste.

Verb

untaste (third-person singular simple present untastes, present participle untasting, simple past and past participle untasted)

1. To deprive of taste.
   • 1609, Samuel Daniel, “The Eightth Booke”, in The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes for] Simon Watersonne, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 224:

     […] Vntaſte them of this violent diſguſt;

2. (transitive) To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
   • 2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:

     “Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!

   • 2015, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40:

     He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.

   • 2015, Jen Rose Yokel, Ruins & Kingdoms - Page 45:

     Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?

Etymology 2

From un- (“absence of”) +‎ taste.

Noun

untaste (uncountable)

1. Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness
   • 1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:

     Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.

   • 1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66:

     Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.

   • 2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness:

     [...] only that mind could appreciate the true meaning of hell, a place of virtual nonexistence, of absolute cold, of emptiness beyond all sensations, an abstract vacuum of untouch, untaste, unhope, unlove. An urplace that negated every word, [...]

Anagrams

• tetanus, attunes, nutates, Tenutas, tautens, unstate

Galician

Verb

untaste

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular preterite indicative of untar

Italian

Verb

untaste

1. inflection of untare:
   1. second-person plural past historic
   2. second-person plural imperfect subjunctive

Portuguese

Verb

untaste

1. second-person singular preterite indicative of untar

Spanish

Verb

untaste

1. second-person singular preterite indicative of untar