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/teɪst/ · noun
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation..
He had a strange taste in his mouth.
Venison has a strong taste.
Like smell, taste has been found to imprint our minds with strong memories.
His taste was impaired by an illness.
Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow.
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
Use taste when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Taste means One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation..
Common synonyms include smack, smatch, discernment, culture.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He had a strange taste in his mouth.
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