Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disgust"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disgust \Dis*gust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgusted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Disgusting}.] [OF. desgouster, F. d['e]go[^u]ter;
pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. go[^u]ter, fr. L.
gustare, fr. gustus taste. See {Gust} to taste.]
To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one)
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.
[AE]rius is expressly declared . . . to have been
disgusted at failing. --J. H.
Newman.
Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the
convention. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disgust \Dis*gust"\, n. [Cf. OF. desgoust, F. d['e]go[^u]t. See
{Disgust}, v. t.]
Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure
produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste;
-- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for
anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now
rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything
extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher
sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite
disgust.
The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing
done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust
wherewith it is received. --Locke.
In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have
excited only disgust. --Macaulay.
Syn: Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike;
disinclination; abomination. See {Dislike}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disgust
n : strong feelings of dislike
v 1: fill with distaste; "This fould language disgusts me" [syn:
{revolt}, {repel}]
2: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of [syn: {revolt},
{nauseate}, {sicken}, {churn up}]
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