Taste

Noun

 * 1) One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.
 * : A person’s implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
 * : A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

Verb

 * 1)  To sample the flavor of something orally.
 * 2)  To have a taste.
 * 3) To experience.

Adjectives for Taste
worst; impeccable; distinctive; congenial; artificial; pictureque; startling; acrid; artistic; luxurious, agreeable; aesthetic; considerable; fanciful; unpleasant; barbarous; educated; nauseous; bizarre; provincial; fastidious; incongruous; desultory; native; refreshing; controlling; exquisite; intellectual; superior; bookkeeping; cultivated; unusual; costly; execrable; elevated; vulgar;classical; horrible; magic; varying; ludicrous; lustrous; cosmopolitan; barbaric; philanthropic; tangy; good; scientific; admirable; ancestral; erroneous; musical; precious; astringent; literary; uncertain; developed; popular; brazen; massive; instinctive; diminished; enlightened; ephemeral; pronounced; elegant; mortal; clean; honorable; gross; individual; delicious; aromatic; radical; savage; odious; characteristic; surprising; questionable; critical; unperverted; inimitable;  plebeian;   histrionic; taffy; bitter; schoolmastery; fashionable.

Adverbs for Taste
sparingly; tentatively; fastidiously; perniciously; poisonously; odiously; horribly.

Verbs for Taste
accumulate—; alter—; betray—; concoct—; criticize—; cultivate—; deprave—; disguise——; dispel—; elevate—; endure—; feign—; gratify—; impair—; indulge in—; manifest—; minister to—; modify—; outgrow—; overrate—; pander to—; pervert—; possess——; polish—; purify—; refine—; reflect—; relish—; simplify—; spice—; —appeals; — bites; —blossoms; —characterizes; —clings; —collapses; —crystallizes; —discriminates; —guides; —gormandizes; —intoxicates; — lingers; —nauseates; —rasps; —reflects; — sickens; —smacks of.

Thesaurus
examine, example, experience, experiment, fall to, fancy, fare, fashion, fastidiousness, favor, feature, feed, feel, feeling, felicitousness, felicity, figure, fine palate, finesse, finish, fittingness, five senses, flavor, flow, flowing periods, fluency, fondness, form, give a try, give a tryout, gleam, go through, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, grain, gust, gusto, hallmark, have, have a go, have knowledge of, hear, hearing, heart, hint, hollow hunger, hunger, hungriness, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, impress, impression, inclination, index, individualism, infatuation, intimation, judgement, judiciousness, keynote, know, labor under, leaning, lick, like, likes, liking, limpidity, lineaments, little bite, little smack, look, love, lucidity, making distinctions, manner, mannerism, mark, marking, meet, meet up with, meet with, meticulousness, mode, mold, morsel, motif, mouthful, naturalness, nature, neatness, niceness of distinction, nicety, nip, odor, palate, partake, partake of, partiality, particular choice, particularity, particularness, pass through, passion, pay, peculiarity, pellucidity, penchant, perceive, perception, perfectionism, personal choice, perspicuity, phonism, photism, piece, pinch, pitch in, plainness, play around with, polish, politeness, politesse, polydipsia, practice upon, preciseness, precisianism, precision, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, priggishness, proclivity, property, propriety, prove, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, puritanism, purity, put to trial, quality, quirk, receptor, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, relish, research, respond, respond to stimuli, restraint, road-test, run a sample, run up against, sample, sampling, sapidity, sapor, savor, scintilla, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seal, see, seemliness, selectiveness, selectivity, sense, sense organ, senses, sensibility, sensillum, sensitivity, sensorium, sensory organ, shade, shadow, shake down, shape, sight, simplicity, singularity, sip, sixth sense, smack, smack the lips, smattering, smell, smoothness, soft, soupcon, spark, specialty, specimen, spend, sprinkling, stamp, stand under, stomach, straightforwardness, strictness, style, stylishness, substantiate, subtlety, suffer, suggestion, sup, suspicion, sustain, swallow, swatch, sweet tooth, synesthesia, tact, tactfulness, taint, take, tang, tapeworm, taste of, tastefulness, taster, tendency, terseness, test, thing, thirst, thirstiness, thought, tincture, tinge, token, tolerance, torment of Tantalus, touch, trace, trait, trick, trifle, try, try it on, try out, type, unaffectedness, undergo, understanding, validate, verify, weakness, whiff, wink, zest, Atticism, affection, affinity, appetence, appetite, appreciate, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, apprehend, appropriateness, aroma, artistic judgment, assay, attribute, badge, bag, be aware of, be conscious of, be exposed to, be fond of, be partial to, be sensible of, be subjected to, bent, bias, bit, bite, brand, break bread, bring to test, cachet, canine appetite, cast, censoriousness, character, characteristic, chasteness, chastity, choosiness, chosen kind, chromesthesia, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, color hearing, come up against, comeliness, comprehension, configuration, confirm, connoisseurship, conscientiousness, correctness, count calories, critical niceness, criticalness, crush, cultivation, cup of tea, cut, cut and try, dash, decorum, delicacy, delight in, design, desire, diet, differentia, differential, dignity, directness, discernment, discretion, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, disposition, distinction, distinctive feature, drop, drought, druthers, dryness, earmark, ease, eat, elegance, elegancy, emptiness, empty stomach, encounter, endure, enjoy, essay,

Alternative forms

 * tast

Etymology
From tasten: from  taster: from assumed  *undefined:, a new iterative of  taxare: from tangere:. 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").

Synonyms

 * smack, smatch

Hyponyms

 * relish, savor

Derived terms

 * acquired taste
 * tasteless


 * tasty

Synonyms

 * smack

Noun

 * Arabic: الذوق
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: dastamen
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 味道, 味兒, 味儿, 氣味, 气味
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gusto
 * Estonian: maitse
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: स्वाद
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: çêj, tam
 * Sorani: تام, چاخ
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: garša
 * Lithuanian: skonis
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: طعم
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: gosto
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: smak


 * Arabic: ذوق
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: maitse
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: προτίμηση


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: smekkur
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: smak, tycke


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:, πρόγευση
 * Norwegian: smakebit


 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: smakprov, smakbit

Verb

 * Arabic: تذوق, ذاق
 * Egyptian Arabic
 * Armenian: համտեսել
 * Catalan: tastar,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 嘗味, 尝味,, , ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Icelandic: bragða,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:, 嘗める
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: sentir o gosto
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, probar
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: smaka, provsmaka
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ: ta̰ã


 * Arabic: ذاق
 * Catalan: tastar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 味道
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bragðast
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 味がする
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: иметь вкус
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: smaka


 * Czech:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: smaka