disgust

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭs-gŭstʹ, dĭ-skŭstʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɡʌst/, /dɪˈskʌst/, /dɪzˈɡʌst/

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• Rhymes: -ʌst
• Hyphenation: dis‧gust
• Homophone: discussed

Verb

disgust (third-person singular simple present disgusts, present participle disgusting, simple past and past participle disgusted)

1. To cause an intense dislike for something.

   It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:

     Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]

   • 1819, William Thomas Moncrieff, Rochester; or, King Charles the Second’s Merry Days: A Burletta, in Three Acts. […], London: Printed for John Lowndes, […], page 24:

     Mud This is a very specious piece of business; and above my implication—Dear me—dear me—what a thing it is, that one never can disgust one’s meals in peace—but one must be torn piecemeal with defamations—convocations—and other informalities—If I’d any of the fees and requisites of office for my pains—it would be a different thing—but every body knows I’m an ignoramous, and commit justice gratis—I must disperse the complaint.

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust.

Derived terms

• self-disgust

Translations

to cause an intense dislike for something

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: قَرَّف (garraf), قِرِف (girif)

• Azerbaijani: iyrəndirmək, iyrəndirmək, çiyrindirmək
• Bulgarian: отвращавам (bg) (otvraštavam)
• Catalan: fer fàstic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使憎惡／使憎恶 (zh)

• Czech: zhnusit, znechutit (cs)
• Danish: fremkalde (da) væmmelse
• Dutch: doen walgen (nl)
• Finnish: iljettää (fi), inhottaa (fi)
• French: dégoûter (fr)
• Galician: noxar
• Georgian: შეზიზღება (šezizɣeba)
• German: ekeln (de)
• Greek: αηδιάζω (el) (aïdiázo)
• Hebrew: הגעיל (he) (hig'íl)
• Hungarian: undorít (hu)
• Ido: nauzeigar (io)
• Ingrian: inhottaa
• Italian: disgustare (it), ripugnare (it), nauseare, stomacare (it), rivoltare (it)
• Japanese: 嫌気がさす (iyake ga sasu), ムカつく (mukatsuku)
• Latin: fastīdior (See fastīdiō.)
• Latvian: riebties
• Malayalam: അറപ്പ് (ml) (aṟappŭ)
• Maori: whakaanuanu, whakarikarika, whakahouhou, whakarihariha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gi avsky, gi vemmelse, få til å vemmes

  Nynorsk: gje avsky, få til å vemjast, få til å vemmast

• Persian: بیزار کردن (fa) (bizâr kardan)
• Polish: brzydzić (pl) impf
• Portuguese: enojar (pt), repugnar (pt)
• Romanian: dezgusta (ro), îngrețoșa (ro), scârbi (ro)
• Russian: вызыва́ть отвраще́ние impf (vyzyvátʹ otvraščénije), вы́звать отвраще́ние pf (výzvatʹ otvraščénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgreamhaich
• Spanish: repugnar (es), dar asco, asquear (es), disgustar (es)
• Swedish: äckla (sv)
• Telugu: రోత కలిగించు (rōta kaligiñcu)
• Turkish: iğrendirmek (tr), tiksindirmek (tr)
• Yiddish: עקלען (eklen)

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• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} krupë (sq)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} vastikustunne
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ზიზღი (zizɣi)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kejijikan (id)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 싫증 (ko) (silcheung), ^{(please verify)} 혐오 (ko) (hyeomo)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} bikkinlik
• Uyghur: ^{(please verify)} alude
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} diflasrwydd (cy)

Noun

disgust (uncountable)

1. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

   With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.

Derived terms

• animal reminder disgust

 

Translations

an intense dislike or repugnance

• Arabic: إِشْمِئْزَاز m (ʔišmiʔzāz)

  Egyptian Arabic: قَرَف m (ʔaraf)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَرَف m (garaf)

• Aromanian: lãilji f, agnos n, greatsã f, dizgustu n
• Azerbaijani: ikrah, iyrənmə
• Belarusian: агі́да f (ahída)
• Bulgarian: отвраще́ние (bg) n (otvrašténie), отврат m (otvrat)
• Catalan: fàstic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厭惡／厌恶 (zh) (yànwù)

• Czech: hnus (cs) m, odpor (cs) m
• Danish: afsky (da) c, væmmelse c
• Dutch: afschuw (nl) m
• Esperanto: naŭzo, abomeno (eo)
• Finnish: inho (fi), vastenmielisyys (fi)
• French: dégoût (fr) m
• Galician: noxo m, fasquía f
• Georgian: ზიზღი (zizɣi)
• German: Ekel (de) m
• Greek: αηδία (el) f (aïdía)
• Hebrew: גועל m (go'al)
• Hungarian: undor (hu)
• Ilocano: ariek, kiki
• Ingrian: inho
• Irish: déistin f
• Italian: disgusto (it) m, schifo (it) m, ripugnanza (it) f, ribrezzo (it) m
• Japanese: 嫌気 (ja) (いやけ, iyake), 嫌悪 (ja) (けんお, ken'o), 嫌い (ja) (きらい, kirai)
• Kapampangan: sora
• Latvian: riebums m
• Macedonian: одвратност f (odvratnost)
• Maori: maninohea, whakapairuaki, whakarikarika, aniwatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avsky (no) m, vemmelse m

  Nynorsk: avsky, vemjing f, vemming f

• Occitan: fàstic (oc) m
• Persian: بیزاری (fa) (bizâri)
• Piedmontese: stri m
• Plautdietsch: Äakjel n
• Polish: odraza (pl) f, wstręt (pl) m
• Portuguese: repugnância (pt) f, nojo (pt) m, desgosto (pt) m
• Romanian: dezgust (ro) n
• Russian: отвраще́ние (ru) n (otvraščénije), омерзе́ние (ru) n (omerzénije)
• Sanskrit: अरुचि (sa) n (aruci)
• Scottish Gaelic: gràin f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гађење n

  Roman: gađenje (sh) n

• Slovak: odpor m, hnus m
• Slovene: gnus m
• Spanish: asco (es) m, repugnancia (es) f, desazón (es) f, repulsa (es) f
• Swedish: äckel (sv)
• Tagalog: suya (tl)
• Turkish: iğrenme (tr), iğrenti (tr), tiksinme (tr), tiksinti (tr)
• Ukrainian: відра́за f (vidráza)
• West Frisian: mier
• Yiddish: עקל m (ekl)

Further reading

• “disgust”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “disgust”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “disgust”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Etymology

From dis- +‎ gust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dizˈɡust]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [dizˈɣust]

Noun

disgust m (plural disgusts or disgustos)

1. displeasure

   Antonym: plaer

Derived terms

• disgustar

Further reading

• “disgust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “disgust”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “disgust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “disgust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.