disgust
Noun
- strong feelings of dislike
- An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
Verb
Verb Forms: disgusted, disgusting, disgusts
- To cause a strong feeling of revulsion or aversion in.
- fill with distaste
- "This spoilt food disgusts me"
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- To cause an intense dislike for something.
Examples
- It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.
- The opponent’s constant slow play began to disgust everyone at the table.
- With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).
The noun is from Middle French desgoust, from the verb.
Synonyms
churn up, gross out, nauseate, repel, revolt, sicken, abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, backwardness, disgust, disinclination, displacency, disrelish, distain, distaste, horror, loathing, nausea, phobia, reluctance, repugnance, shock
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
disgust: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddisgust: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
disgust: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary