Distaste, n.
1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.
2. Discomfort; uneasiness. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.
3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.
Syn. -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
2 other Webster entries under this spelling
Distaste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distasting.]
1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike. Although my will distaste what it elected. Shak.
2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.
3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.
Distaste, v. i.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.] Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to distaste. Shak.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for distaste; he lists it under antipathy.
Where he writes about it:
Antagonism may result from the necessity of circumstances; opposition may spring from conflicting views or interests; abhorrence and detestation may be the result of religious and moral training; distaste and disgust may be acquired; aversion is a deep and permanent dislike. — from antipathy