Word Meanings - DISGUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly

Additional info about word: DISGUST

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. Macaulay. (more info) + gouster to taste, F. goûter, fr. L. gustare, fr. gustus taste. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISGUST)

• Nausea
• Loathing
• disgust
• abomination
• qualm
• sea-sickness
• Shock
• Surprise
• offend
• dismay
• astound
• appall
• horrify
• shame

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISGUST)

• Encourage
• rally
• inspirit
• assure
• allure

Related words: (words related to DISGUST)

• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• QUALM
  1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who,
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• NAUSEANT
  A substance which produces nausea.
• APPALL
  1. To make pale; to blanch. The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. 2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• ABOMINATION
  1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred;
• RALLY
  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• SURPRISE
  1. The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise. 2. The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion
• DISGUSTFUL
  Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
• ALLURE
  To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor
• ASSUREDLY
  Certainly; indubitably. "The siege assuredly I'll raise." Shak.
• NAUSEATION
  The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
• OFFENDER
  One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.
• ENCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. 2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward,
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• CHORALLY
  In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
• SCRIPTURALLY
  In a scriptural manner.
• DEXTRALLY
  (adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.