taste

Roget category 850

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections

#850. [Good taste.] Taste

noun

taste — good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste — delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse — nicety etc. (discrimination) 465 — to prepon [Gr.] — polish, elegance, grace.
judgment, discernment etc. 465.
dilettantism, dilettanteism — virtu — fine art — culture, cultivation.
[Science of taste] aesthetics.
man of taste &c. — connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus^†, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.], stagirite^†, euphemist.
caviare to the general" [Hamlet].

verb

appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate etc. 465

adjective

in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty — unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic — cultivated, refined — dainty — esthetic, aesthetic, artistic — elegant etc. 578 — euphemistic.
to one's taste, to one's mind — after one's fancy — comme il faut [Fr.] — tire a quatre epingles [Fr.].

adverb

elegantly etc. adj..

phrase

nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [Lat.] [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout [Fr.] — oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Lat.] [Cicero].

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