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disgustful

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

disgusting, vile.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Examples

  • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Oxford University Press, 2006, A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter VI, p. 236, Or else from the same Store-house, with some other poysonous Additions, they command us to take in at the Orifice above or below, (just as the Physician then happens to be disposed) a Medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the Bowels; which relaxing the Belly, drives down all before it: And this they call a Purge, or a Clyster.

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Antonyms: none provided

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adj

Meaning 2

Full of disgust.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a disgusting smell
  • distasteful language
  • a loathsome disease
  • the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
  • revolting food
  • a wicked stench

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From disgust + -ful.