acquired taste

Noun

Meaning

a preference that is only acquired after considerable experience

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

embarrassment horrible awful dreadful disgusting hideous abomination horror show double whammy face only a mother could love blot on the landscape far cry from attractive offense to the eye something that is not immediately liked due palate
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Antonyms

diamond comely beautiful beauty attractive appealing
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Hypernyms

taste preference penchant predilection

Examples

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. Tori Amos

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. Marc Maron

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. Eleanor Robson Belmont

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Reality is an acquired taste. Robert Fritz

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. Saul Williams

Close letter words and terms

acquired prion disease acquired reflex acquired syphilis acquired tolerance acquired von Willebrand syndrome acquiree