Adjective: yucky (yuckier,yuckiest) yú-kee
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
"the town's yucky smell was from the factory nearby";
- disgusting, disgustful [archaic], foul, loathly [literary], loathsome, repellent, repellant, revolting, wicked, gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal], sickening, nauseating, vile
Derived forms: yuckiest, yuckier
See also: distasteful, gut-wrenching, offensive, unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn]
Encyclopedia: Yucky