Word Meanings - RELISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food. Now I begin to relish thy advice. Shak. He knows how

Additional info about word: RELISH

1. To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food. Now I begin to relish thy advice. Shak. He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honors which he enjoys. Atterbury. 2. To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably. A savory bit that served to relish wine. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELISH)

• Flavor
• Taste
• savor
• smack
• odor
• relish
• zest
• Like
• Love
• approve
• enjoy
• affect
• Liking
• approval
• infection
• taste
• inclination
• partiality
• fondness
• Partiality
• Preponderance
• love
• Gustation
• flavor
• sapidity
• perception
• judgment
• discernment
• nicety
• critique
• sensibility
• choice
• predilection
• delicacy
• elegancy
• refinement

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RELISH)

• Repudiate
• nauseate
• reject
• abominate
• loathe

Related words: (words related to RELISH)

• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• ENJOY
  1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation. 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy
• ENJOYER
  One who enjoys.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• PERCEPTION
  The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• FLAVORED
  Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• LIKIN
  A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. "Likin," which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, "squeezes" imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• WELL-LIKING
  Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer .
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• COWLIKE
  Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.