Adjective: disgusting dis'gús-ting
- Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
"the town's disgusting smell was from the factory nearby";
- disgustful [archaic], foul, loathly [literary], loathsome, repellent, repellant, revolting, wicked, yucky [informal], gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal], sickening, nauseating, vile
- Fill with distaste
"This spoilt food disgusts me";
- gross out [informal], revolt, repel
- Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
"The pornographic pictures disgusted us";
- revolt, nauseate, sicken
See also: distasteful, gut-wrenching, offensive, unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn]
Type of: excite, repel, repulse, stimulate, stir
Encyclopedia: Disgusting
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