unsavoriness

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Unpleasant taste

Nouns — unsavoriness, tastelessness, insipidity; unpalatableness, distaste-fulness, roughness, acridity, acridness, acerbity, sourness; gall and wormwood. See dislike, discontent.

Verbs — be unsavory or unpalatable; sicken, repel, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the stomach.

Adjectives

1. unsavory, insipid, tasteless; unpalatable, ill-flavored, distasteful, harsh, rough, bitter, acrid, acerb, acrimonious.

2. offensive, repulsive, repugnant, obnoxious, unpleasant, objectionable, disagreeable, uninviting, nasty, sickening, nauseous, loathsome, disgusting, vile, foul, revolting. Slang, dorky.

3. disreputable, unprepossessing (see disrepute, ugliness).

Antonyms, see taste.