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[syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disgusting \Dis*gust"ing\, a.
That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. --
Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disgusting
adj 1: 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: disgusting,
disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly,
loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling,
revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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