[syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disgust \Dis*gust"\, n. [Cf. OF. desgoust, F. d['e]go[^u]t. See
Disgust, v. t.]
Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure
produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste;
-- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for
anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now
rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything
extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher
sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite
disgust.
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The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing
done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust
wherewith it is received. --Locke.
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In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have
excited only disgust. --Macaulay.
Syn: Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike;
disinclination; abomination. See Dislike.
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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):
disgust
n 1: strong feelings of dislike
v 1: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn:
disgust, gross out, revolt, repel]
2: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The
pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt,
nauseate, sicken, churn up]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgust":
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