disgust
/dɪsˈɡʌst/ verb, noun
Forms disgusts disgusting disgusted
- verb To cause an intense dislike for something. “It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.”
- noun An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty. “With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.”
Synonyms
abhorrence antipathy aversion backwardness disinclination displacency disrelish distain distaste horror loathing nausea phobia reluctance repugnance shock gross out revolt repel nauseate sicken churn up
Antonyms
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”). By surface analysis, dis- + gust (“taste”).
The noun is from Middle French desgoust, from the verb.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott.
- noun 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.
Etymology [OF. desgouster, F. dégoûter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. goûter, fr. L. gustare, fr. gustus taste. See Gust to taste.]
Etymology [Cf. OF. desgoust, F. dégoût. See Disgust, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “disgust”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details