acquired taste

1. 1.

   a preference that is only acquired after considerable experience

   “martinis are an acquired taste”

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Questions about acquired taste

What does acquired taste mean?

acquired taste means "a preference that is only acquired after considerable experience".

Is acquired taste a common word?

acquired taste is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.