disgust
pronunciation
How to pronounce disgust in British English:
UK [dɪsˈɡʌst]
How to pronounce disgust in American English:
US [dɪsˈɡʌst]
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- Noun:
- strong feelings of dislike
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- Verb:
- fill with distaste
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
Word Origin
- disgust
- disgust: [16] Something that disgusts one is literally ‘not to one’s taste’. The word comes from Old French desguster, a compound verb formed from the prefix des- ‘not’ and goust ‘taste’. This in turn came from Latin gustus (ultimate source of English gusto); its modern French descendant is goût. Originally, as its derivation implies, disgust meant simply ‘cause to feel aversion, displease’ (and also, with subject and object reversed, ‘dislike, loathe’: ‘Had he not known that I disgusted it, it had never been spoke or done by him’, Robert South, Sermons 1716); but over the centuries it has hardened into ‘sicken, repel’.=> gusto
- disgust (n.)
- 1590s, from Middle French desgoust "strong dislike, repugnance," literally "distaste" (16c., Modern French dégoût), from desgouster "have a distaste for," from des- "opposite of" (see dis-) + gouster "taste," from Latin gustare "to taste" (see gusto).
- disgust (v.)
- c. 1600, from Middle French desgouster "have a distaste for" (see disgust (n.)). Sense has strengthened over time, and subject and object have been reversed; the older use looks like this: "It is not very palatable, which makes some disgust it" (1660s). The reverse sense of "to excite nausea" is attested from 1640s. Related: Disgusted; disgusting.
Example
- 1. Can you feel your feelings of both attraction and disgust ?
- 2. Others were expressing their disgust at pervasive corruption .
- 3. Us and pakistan : allies with mutual disgust
- 4. His behavior filled her with disgust .
- 5. I had lunch finally , but with a growing feeling of disgust .