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disgusting

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

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /dɪzˈɡʌstɪŋ/
  • Ireland, Northern-England: /dɪsˈɡʊstɪŋ/
  • Ireland, Northern-England: /dɪsˈkʊstɪŋ/
  • Ireland, Northern-England: /dɪzˈɡʊstɪŋ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʌstɪŋ
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S G AH1 S T IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a disgusting waste of money

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: distasteful, gro, grody, grotty, repulsive, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, bum, vile, demonic, disagreeable, disgusting, foul, rancid, fulsome, gooey, grim, gross, harsh, loathsome, munted, nasty, nauseous, offensive, obnoxious, obscene, rank, repugnant, revolting, scabrous, sickening, strident, unpleasant

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

present participle and gerund of disgust

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

By surface analysis, disgust + -ing.

Across languages

Translations

143 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: efshtë — repulsive, distasteful
  • Arabic: مُقْرِف (muqrif) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Arabic: مُقَزِّز (muqazziz) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Arabic: مُقْرِف (mugrif) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Armenian: զզվելի (zzveli) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Armenian: գարշելի (garšeli) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Armenian: նողկալի (noġkali) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Azerbaijani: iyrənc — repulsive, distasteful
  • Belarusian: агі́дны (ahídny) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Belarusian: гі́дкі (hídki) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Belarusian: агі́длівы (ahídlivy) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Belarusian: гі́дасны (hídasny) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Belarusian: адваро́тны (advarótny) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Belarusian: праці́ўны (pracíwny) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Bulgarian: отврати́телен (otvratítelen) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Bulgarian: проти́вен (protíven) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Catalan: fastigós — repulsive, distasteful
  • Catalan: repugnant — repulsive, distasteful
  • Catalan: menyspreable — repulsive, distasteful
  • Chinese Mandarin: 憎惡 /憎恶 (zēngwù, zēng'è) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Chinese Mandarin: 可惡 /可恶 (kěwù) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Chinese Mandarin: 討厭 /讨厌 (tǎoyàn) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Czech: nechutný — repulsive, distasteful
  • Danish: væmmelig — repulsive, distasteful
  • Danish: klam — repulsive, distasteful
  • Danish: ulækker — repulsive, distasteful
  • Dutch: walgelijk — repulsive, distasteful
  • Dutch: afschuwelijk — repulsive, distasteful
  • Dutch: degoutant — repulsive, distasteful
  • Esperanto: naŭza — repulsive, distasteful
  • Esperanto: abomeninda — repulsive, distasteful
  • Faroese: spýggjuligur — repulsive, distasteful
  • Finnish: inhottava — repulsive, distasteful
  • Finnish: kuvottava — repulsive, distasteful
  • Finnish: etova — repulsive, distasteful
  • Finnish: yököttävä — repulsive, distasteful
  • Finnish: ällö — repulsive, distasteful
  • French: dégoûtant — repulsive, distasteful
  • French: dégueulasse — repulsive, distasteful
  • French: immonde — repulsive, distasteful
  • Galician: noxento — repulsive, distasteful
  • Georgian: ამაზრზენი (amazrzeni) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Georgian: საზიზღარი (sazizɣari) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Georgian: საძულველი (saʒulveli) — repulsive, distasteful
  • German: ekelhaft — repulsive, distasteful
  • German: eklig — repulsive, distasteful
  • German: grauslich — repulsive, distasteful
  • German: abstoßend — repulsive, distasteful
  • German: ekelerregend — repulsive, distasteful
  • Greek: αηδιαστικός (aïdiastikós) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Ancient Greek: βδελυρός (bdelurós) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Ancient Greek: βδελυκτός (bdeluktós) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Greek: βδελυχρός (bdelukhrós) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Hebrew: מַגְעִיל (mag'íl) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Hindi: घिनौना (ghinaunā) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Hungarian: gusztustalan — repulsive, distasteful
  • Hungarian: undorító — repulsive, distasteful
  • Icelandic: viðbjóðslegur — repulsive, distasteful
  • Icelandic: ógeðslegur — repulsive, distasteful
  • Indonesian: menjijikkan — repulsive, distasteful
  • Irish: déistineach — repulsive, distasteful
  • Irish: samhnasach — repulsive, distasteful
  • Italian: disgustoso — repulsive, distasteful
  • Italian: nauseante — repulsive, distasteful
  • Italian: stomachevole — repulsive, distasteful
  • Italian: rivoltante — repulsive, distasteful
  • Japanese: 忌まわしい (imawashii) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Japanese: きもい (kimoi) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Kabyle: amcum — repulsive, distasteful
  • Khmer: គួរឱ្យខ្ពើមរអើម (kuor aoy khpaemoraem) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Korean: 역겹다 (yeokgyeopda) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Latin: foedus — repulsive, distasteful
  • Latin: taeter — repulsive, distasteful
  • Lithuanian: koktus — repulsive, distasteful
  • Macedonian: одвратен (odvraten) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Macedonian: гаден (gaden) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Macedonian: дегутантен (degutanten) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Malay: jijik — repulsive, distasteful
  • Malay: mencolok mata — repulsive, distasteful
  • Māori: whakarikarika — repulsive, distasteful
  • Māori: maninohea — repulsive, distasteful
  • Mongolian: жигшүүрт (žigšüürt) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Nigerian Pidgin: yama-yama — repulsive, distasteful
  • Norman: malaûc'theux — repulsive, distasteful
  • Norwegian: motbydelig — repulsive, distasteful
  • Occitan: fastigós — repulsive, distasteful
  • Occitan: repugnant — repulsive, distasteful
  • Plautdietsch: groff — repulsive, distasteful
  • Polish: wstrętny — repulsive, distasteful
  • Polish: obrzydliwy — repulsive, distasteful
  • Polish: obmierzły — repulsive, distasteful
  • Polish: ohydny — repulsive, distasteful
  • Portuguese: nojento — repulsive, distasteful
  • Portuguese: asqueroso — repulsive, distasteful
  • Portuguese: repulsivo — repulsive, distasteful
  • Portuguese: nauseante — repulsive, distasteful
  • Portuguese: seboso — repulsive, distasteful
  • Romanian: dezgustător — repulsive, distasteful
  • Romanian: respingător — repulsive, distasteful
  • Romanian: scârbos — repulsive, distasteful
  • Russian: отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Russian: омерзи́тельный (omerzítelʹnyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Russian: га́дкий (gádkij) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Russian: проти́вный (protívnyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Russian: паску́дный (paskúdnyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Russian: ме́рзкий (mérzkij) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Scottish Gaelic: gràineil — repulsive, distasteful
  • Scottish Gaelic: oillteil — repulsive, distasteful
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgrathail — repulsive, distasteful
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgreamhail — repulsive, distasteful
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȍgāvan — repulsive, distasteful
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȍdūran — repulsive, distasteful
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȍdvrātan — repulsive, distasteful
  • Slovak: nechutný — repulsive, distasteful
  • Slovak: odporný — repulsive, distasteful
  • Slovene: gnusen — repulsive, distasteful
  • Slovene: ogaben — repulsive, distasteful
  • Slovene: oduren — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: asqueroso — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: repulsivo — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: nauseabundo — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: despreciable — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: repugnante — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: estomagante — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: asqueante — repulsive, distasteful
  • Spanish: asquiente — repulsive, distasteful
  • Swedish: äcklig — repulsive, distasteful
  • Swedish: motbjudande — repulsive, distasteful
  • Swedish: vämjelig — repulsive, distasteful
  • Swedish: vidrig — repulsive, distasteful
  • Thai: น่ารังเกียจ (nâa-rang-gìiat) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Turkish: iğrenç — repulsive, distasteful
  • Turkish: tiksindirici — repulsive, distasteful
  • Ukrainian: оги́дний (ohýdnyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Ukrainian: гидки́й (hydkýj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Ukrainian: відворо́тний (vidvorótnyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Ukrainian: обри́дливий (obrýdlyvyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Ukrainian: проти́вний (protývnyj) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Vietnamese: tởm — repulsive, distasteful
  • Vietnamese: gớm — repulsive, distasteful
  • Vietnamese: ghê — repulsive, distasteful
  • Yiddish: עקלדיק (ekldik) — repulsive, distasteful
  • Yiddish: עקלהאַפֿט (eklhaft) — repulsive, distasteful
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