TASTE


Meaning of TASTE in English

(JUDGMENT) [noun] - a person's appreciation of and liking for particular thingsHis taste in clothes leaves a little to be desired. [C]I've never understood Liz's taste in men. [C]Some people like older buildings and others prefer bold new architecture - it's really just a question of taste. [U]I've never really cared much for flash new cars - old vintage cars are more to my taste (= what I like). [U](approving) Taste is also a person's ability to judge and appreciate what is good or suitable, esp. relating to such matters as art, style, beauty and manners.She has taste, I'll give her that.Every present I've ever received from Camille has been in perfect taste.He has the most awful taste so you can probably imagine what his house looks like.He told a joke about death that I thought was in rather poor taste considering that Steve's father had just died.I'm having a bad taste party on Saturday so you've got to come along in the worst clothes you can find.(humorous) I'm not sure that it's in the best possible taste to tell jokes about divorce at a wedding!

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.