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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISGUSTING, ppr.
1. Provoking aversion; offending the taste.
2. a. Provoking dislike; odious; hateful; as disgusting servility.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1754 causing disgust • disgustingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. arousing aversion or indignation (disgusting behaviour). Derivatives: disgustingly adv. disgustingness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. --Prescott. [AE]rius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. --J. H. Newman. Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. --Macaulay.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disgusting Dis*gust"ing, a. That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that something is disgusting, you are criticizing it because it is extremely unpleasant. It tasted disgusting... Smoking is a disgusting habit. = revolting ADJ 2. If you say that something is disgusting, you mean that you find it completely unacceptable. It's disgusting that the taxpayer is subsidising this project. = disgraceful ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ that

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Nauseous, nauseating, loathsome, sickening. 2. Repulsive, loathsome, revolting, offensive, odious, hateful, foul, abominable, repugnant, abhorrent, detestable, distasteful.

Moby Thesaurus

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