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disgusting

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States//dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ//
  • United States//dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ//
  • United States//dɪzˈɡʌstɪŋ//
  • Ireland//dɪsˈɡʊstɪŋ//
  • Ireland//dɪsˈkʊstɪŋ//

Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

adjective

  1. 1

    Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

    a disgusting waste of money

    The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]

    But it is much more sensible and much more fun and much more disgusting to assume that the English Leather woman is really saying "All my men wear English leather or nothing at all.".

    One guy farted repeatedly and laughed out loud each time he let it out. To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air.

Etymology

By surface analysis, disgust + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of disgustpresent participle and gerund of disgust

Forms

comparative
disgustinger, more disgusting
superlative
disgustingest, most disgusting
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).