Word Meanings - DISGUSTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
Related words: (words related to DISGUSTFUL)
- EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - EXCITABLE
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. - EXCITING
Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes. - EXCITATION
The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon. - OFFENSIVE
1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach." - EXCITABILITY
The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited; - EXCITATOR
A kind of discarder. - EXCITATE
To excite. Bacon. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - AVERSION
1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of - DISGUSTFUL
Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke. - TASTE
by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish - PROVOKEMENT
The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak. - EXCITO-NUTRIENT
Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified. - EXCITO-SECRETORY
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action. - PROVOKE
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; - TASTER
One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food - 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 - DISGUSTFULNESS
The state of being disgustful. - HORRIBLENESS
The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney. - INOFFENSIVE
1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton. - ATTASTE
To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer. - DISTASTEFUL
1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or - FORETASTE
A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation. - ALETASTER
See ALECONNER - CATASTERISM
A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell. - OVEREXCITE
To excite too much.