Disgusting

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disgusting \Dis*gust"ing\, a.
     That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. --
     {Dis*gust"ing*ly}, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Disgust \Dis*gust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgusted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Disgusting}.] [OF. desgouster, F. d['e]go[^u]ter;
     pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. go[^u]ter, fr. L.
     gustare, fr. gustus taste. See {Gust} to taste.]
     To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one)
     loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend
     the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
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           To disgust him with the world and its vanities.
                                                    --Prescott.
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           [AE]rius is expressly declared . . . to have been
           disgusted at failing.                    --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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           Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the
           convention.                              --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disgusting
       adj : highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
             disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
             disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
             "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgustful},
              {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome}, {repellent},
              {repellant}, {repelling}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked},
              {yucky}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  143 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgusting":
     abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, barfy,
     base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
     blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crappy, crude, crummy,
     debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable,
     dire, dirty, distasteful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable,
     fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding,
     foul, fulsome, gloppy, grave, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful,
     heinous, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, infamous, lamentable,
     little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty,
     malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
     miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome,
     notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
     offensive, ordurous, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful,
     poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, rebarbative, regrettable,
     repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive,
     revolting, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby,
     scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shitty,
     shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy,
     slushy, small, sordid, sposhy, squalid, stinking, terrible,
     too bad, unappetizing, unclean, unmentionable, unsavory, vile,
     villainous, vomity, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched,
     yecchy