taste

taste is a 5-letter English word with 31 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
2. transitive verb. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
3. transitive verb. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
4. transitive verb. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
5. transitive verb. To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
6. intransitive verb. To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
7. intransitive verb. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
8. intransitive verb. To take sparingly.
9. intransitive verb. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.
10. noun. The act of tasting; gustation.
11. noun. A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
12. noun. The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
13. noun. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
14. noun. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
15. noun. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
16. noun. Essay; trial; experience; experiment.
17. noun. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit.
18. noun. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
19. noun. a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds

    "a wine tasting"

    Synonyms: tasting

20. noun. the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth

    "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"

    Synonyms: gustation

21. noun. the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus

    "the candy left him with a bad taste"

    "the melon had a delicious taste"

22. noun. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)

    "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"

    "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

    Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness

23. noun. a brief experience of something

    "he got a taste of life on the wild side"

    "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"

24. noun. a strong liking

    "my own preference is for good literature"

    "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

    Synonyms: penchant, predilection, preference

25. noun. a small amount eaten or drunk

    "take a taste--you'll like it"

    Synonyms: mouthful

26. verb. experience briefly

    "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"

27. verb. take a sample of

    "Try these new crackers"

    "Sample the regional dishes"

    Synonyms: sample, try

28. verb. perceive by the sense of taste

    "Can you taste the garlic?"

29. verb. distinguish flavors

    "We tasted wines last night"

30. verb. have flavor; taste of something

    Synonyms: savor, savour

31. verb. have a distinctive or characteristic taste

    "This tastes of nutmeg"

    Synonyms: smack

Synonyms

tasting, gustation, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, penchant, predilection, preference, mouthful, sample, try, savor, savour, smack

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in taste:

state, tates, teats, testa

Common word forms

tasted, taster, tastes, tasting, tasteful, tasteable, tasteless

Words from these letters

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