Disgust

English

Verb

Disgust (third-person singular simple present Disgusts, present participle Disgusting, simple past and past participle Disgusted)

1. To cause an intense dislike for something.

   It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke , For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

Noun

Disgust (uncountable)

1. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

   With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.

Adjectives for Disgust

implacable; sharp; vast; exasperated angry; outraged; inherent; profound creeping; shuddering; secret; icy; silent honest; personal; evident; furious; intense sheer; indignant; intolerable; weary mingled; infinite; considerable; mutual supreme; deep; sullen; philosophical; sickened; cruel; loathing; bewildered; excessive, previous; violent.

Adverbs for Disgust

presumably; thoroughly; implacably; profoundly; secretly; personally; evidently; intensely; intolerably; considerably; mutually; supremely; cruelly; loathingly; excessively; violently.

Synonyms for Disgust

loathing, abomination, abhorrence, distaste, dislike, hatred, aversion, repugnance, detestation, nausea, revulsion, resentment.

Antonyms for Disgust

liking, admiration, reverence, approval, approbation, favor, commendation, respect, esteem, fondness, desire.

Thesaurus

abhorrence, abomination, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, appall, aversion, cold sweat, contempt, creeping flesh, dislike, distaste, enmity, fulsomeness, give offense, gross out, hate, hatred, horrify, horror, hostility, loathing, mortal horror, nausea, nauseate, odium, offend, outrage, put off, reluct, repel, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, revolt, revulsion, shock, shuddering, sicken, sickness, turn the stomach

Etymology

From Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭs-kŭst'
• IPA: /dɪsˈɡʌst/, /dɪsˈkʌst/

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• SAMPA: /dIs"kVst/
• Rhymes: -ʌst
• Homophone: discussed

Translations

Verb

to cause an intense dislike for something

Bulgarian: отвращавам (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 憎惡, simpl. 憎恶 (zēngwù) Czech: zhnusit (cs), znechutit (cs) Danish: fremkalde (da) væmmelse (da) Finnish: iljettää (fi), inhottaa (fi) French: dégoûter (fr) Hebrew: הגעיל (he) (hig'íl) Hungarian: undorít (hu) Italian: disgustare (it)

Japanese: 嫌気がさす (iyake-ga-sasu), ムカつく (mukatsuku) Latvian: riebties Norwegian: avsky (no) Persian: بیزار کردن (bizâr kardan) Romanian: dezgusta (ro), îngreţoşa (ro), scârbi (ro) Russian: вызывать отвращение Scottish Gaelic: sgreamhaich (gd) Spanish: repugnar (es) Telugu: రోత కలిగించు (rOta kaligiMchu)

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Albanian: krupë Azeri: nifrәt Estonian: vastikustunne Georgian: ზიზღი (zizği) Indonesian: kejijikan Korean: 싫증 (silhjeung), 혐오 (hyeomo) Turkish: bikkinlik Uyghur: (alude) Welsh: diflasrwydd

Noun

an intense dislike or repugnance

Arabic: إشمئزاز (išmi’zá:z) m. Bulgarian: отвращение (bg) (otvraşenie) n. Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 厭惡, simpl. 厌恶 (yànwù) Croatian: gađenje (hr) n. Czech: hnus (cs) m. Danish: afsky (da) c., væmmelse (da) c. Dutch: afschuw (nl) Esperanto: naŭzo (eo) Finnish: inho (fi), vastenmielisyys (fi) French: dégoût (fr) m. German: Ekel (de) Greek: αποστροφή (el) f. (apostrofí), αηδία (el) f. (áidía), απέχθεια (el) f. (apékhthia) Hebrew: גועל (go'al) m. Hungarian: undor (hu) Italian: disgusto (it) m.

Japanese: 嫌気 (いやけ) (iyake), 嫌悪 (ken'o) Latvian: riebums Norwegian: avsky (no) m., vemmelse (no) m. Persian: بیزاری (bizâri) Polish: odraza (pl) f. Portuguese: repugnância (pt) f. Romanian: dezgust (ro) Russian: отвращение (ru) (otvraščénije) n. Scottish Gaelic: gràin (gd) f. Serbian: гађење (gađenje) n. Slovak: odpor (sk) Spanish: repugnancia (es) f., asco (es) m., desazón (es) f. Swedish: äckel (sv) West Frisian: mier (fy) Yiddish: ekl

External links

• Disgust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Disgust in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Disgust at OneLook Dictionary Search