DISGUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disgust mean? 

• DISGUST (noun)
  The noun DISGUST has 1 sense:

1. strong feelings of dislike

  Familiarity information: DISGUST used as a noun is very rare.

• DISGUST (verb)
  The verb DISGUST has 2 senses:

1. fill with distaste

2. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

  Familiarity information: DISGUST used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISGUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strong feelings of dislike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("disgust" is a kind of...):

dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disgust"):

abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium (hate coupled with disgust)

horror; repugnance; repulsion; revulsion (intense aversion)

nausea (disgust so strong it makes you feel sick)

Derivation:

disgust (cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of)

disgust (fill with distaste)

• DISGUST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disgust    ... he / she / it disgusts   
Past simple: disgusted   
Past participle: disgusted   
-ing form: disgusting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill with distaste

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

disgust; gross out; repel; revolt

Context example:

This spoilt food disgusts me

Hypernyms (to "disgust" is one way to...):

excite; stimulate; stir (stir feelings in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disgust"):

nauseate; sicken; turn one's stomach (upset and make nauseated)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

disgust (strong feelings of dislike)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

churn up; disgust; nauseate; revolt; sicken

Context example:

The pornographic pictures sickened us

Hypernyms (to "disgust" is one way to...):

repel; repulse (be repellent to; cause aversion in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disgust"):

appal; appall; offend; outrage; scandalise; scandalize; shock (strike with disgust or revulsion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to disgust Sue

Derivation:

disgust (strong feelings of dislike)

 Context examples 

He was disgusted with himself, surprised at his own fickleness, and full of a queer mixture of disappointment and relief that he could recover from such a tremendous blow so soon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The other puppies came sprawling toward him, to Collie's great disgust; and he gravely permitted them to clamber and tumble over him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck and his comrades looked upon them with disgust, and though he speedily taught them their places and what not to do, he could not teach them what to do.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I began one, “How can I ever hope, my dear Agnes, to efface from your remembrance the disgusting impression”—there I didn't like it, and then I tore it up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I should have thought your last impressions of Lyme must have been strong disgust.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My cry of disgust had brought the two professors to my side.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now she threw them down, saying, with half-laughter, and half-disgust:—Oh, Professor, I believe you are only putting up a joke on me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He is greatly disgusted with the outlook, and I am given to understand that Wolf Larsen bears a very unsavoury reputation among the sealing captains.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The great spider was lying asleep when the Lion found him, and it looked so ugly that its foe turned up his nose in disgust.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)