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English Dictionary: Disgusting by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Disgusting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disgusting \Dis*gust"ing\, a.
      That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. --
      {Dis*gust"ing*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disgust \Dis*gust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgusted}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Disgusting}.] [OF. desgouster, F. d[82]go[96]ter;
      pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. go[96]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.
  
               [92]rius is expressly declared . . . to have been
               disgusted at failing.                              --J. H.
                                                                              Newman.
  
               Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the
               convention.                                             --Macaulay.
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