ADJ
- delicious, fresh, pleasant, refreshing
- distinctive
- pungent, rich, strong
- bland, mild
- foul, nasty, unpleasant
- bitter, creamy, metallic, salty, sharp, smooth, sour, spicy, sweet
- authentic
- You need to use fresh herbs to get the authentic Italian taste
- little
- real
- That job gave me my first real taste of teaching
- first
VERB + TASTE
- have
- The soup had a very salty taste
- leave
- The drink left a bitter taste in his mouth. (figurative) The whole business left a nasty taste in my mouth
- spoil
- Don't have a cigarette now?you'll spoil the taste of your food!
- enhance, improve
- enjoy, savour
- She savoured the taste of the champagne
- disguise, take away
- I had a strong coffee to take away the nasty taste of the food
- get, have
- Have a taste of this cake
- give sb, provide (sb with)
TASTE + NOUN
- buds 2 a taste small amount
PREP
- ~ of
- This was her first taste of success
PHRASES
- a taste of things to come
- The new appraisal scheme is only a taste of things to come
ADJ
- catholic, eclectic, varied, wide
- modest, simple
- advanced, cultured, educated, sophisticated
- expensive, extravagant
- eccentric, esoteric, strange
- acquired, natural
- Art is an acquired taste?no one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful
- natural
- local, national
- modern
- personal, private
- aesthetic, artistic, literary, musical, reading, sexual
- audience, consumer, contemporary, popular, public, Western
- Her msuic appeals to popular taste
VERB + TASTE
- have
- They have a taste for adventure
- like, share
- You obviously share her taste in reading
- acquire, cultivate, develop, get
- lose
- I've lost my taste for travelling
- indulge
- Now he is retired he has time to indulge his tastes for writing and politics
- demonstrate, display
- Her choice of outfit demonstrated her taste for the outrageous
- appeal to, cater for, match, meet, satisfy, suit
- a range of hotels to suit all tastes and budgets
TASTE + VERB
- lie
- It all depends on where your tastes lie
- change, differ, vary
- Lifestyles differ and tastes vary
PREP
- for your ~
- The theatre was too modern for my taste
- to ~ (= according to how much of sth as you want)
- Add salt and pepper to taste
- to your ~
- If fishing is not to your taste, there are many other leisure activities on offer
- ~ for
- People with a taste for complex plots will enjoy this book
- ~ in
- young people's tastes in music
PHRASES
- a man/woman of … tastes
- a man of advanced tastes
- a matter of (personal) taste
- What type of bicycle you should buy is very much a matter of personal taste
ADJ
- excellent, exquisite, good, great, impeccable
- Her work is executed with impeccable taste
- appalling, bad, deplorable, doubtful, dubious, poor, terrible
VERB + TASTE
- reflect, show
- The house reflected his taste
- exercise
- The designer has exercised good taste in her use of different fonts
PREP
- in … ~
- That joke was in very poor taste
- with ~
- The room had been decorated with great taste
- ~ in
- She has terrible taste in clothing
PHRASES
- an arbiter of taste
- Contemporary arbiters of taste dismissed his paintings as rubbish
- in the best/worst possible taste
- The love scenes are all done in the best possible taste
- a lack of taste
- The remark showed a deplorable lack of taste
- a man/woman of taste, taste and decency
- The film was judged to offend against standards of public taste and decency