disgustfuladj.
/dɪsˈɡʌstfʊl/ 1. Causing literal disgust; offensive to the taste or other sense; disagreeable, sickening, nauseous.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > disgusting
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wallowish1548
foul1560
maumish1580
nasty1601
distastable1607
distasteful1611
disgustfula1625
nauseous1649
fulsome1694
mawkisha1697
disgusting1754
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brackish1871
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a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggv/2 The British waters are grown dull and muddy, the fruit disgustful.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Aa All kinds of cordialls, save those that are disgustful.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. vi. 88 A Medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the Bowels.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. iii. 11 Blood, that mix'd with tears..by disgustful worms was gather'd there.
1888 J. R. Lowell Prose Wks. (1890) VI. 199 These flesh-flies..plant there the eggs of their disgustful and infectious progeny.
2. Distasteful, displeasing; causing dislike, dissatisfaction, or displeasure; offensive. archaic.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant
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unquemeOE
un-i-quemeOE
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sourc1175
illc1220
unhightlyc1275
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unnetc1330
unrekena1350
unagreeablec1374
uncouthc1380
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eschewc1420
unsoot1420
mislikinga1425
unlikelya1425
unlustya1425
fastidiousc1425
unpleasantc1430
displicable1471
unthankfulc1475
displeasant1481
uneasy1483
unpleasinga1500
unfaring1513
badc1530
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offensible1575
offensive1576
naughty1578
delightlessa1586
undelightful1585
unwisheda1586
unpleasurable1587
undelightsomec1595
dislikeful1596
disliking1596
ungrateful1596
unsweet?a1600
distastive1600
impleasing1602
distasting1603
distasteful1607
unsightly1608
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disgustful1611
unrelishing1611
waspisha1616
undeliciousa1618
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undesirable1667
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nice and ——1796
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uncongenial1813
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grimy1833
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displeasurable1879
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charming1893
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negative1902
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1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxi. 226/2 I grieue, that my life and..Gouernment..should seem so disgustfull vnto any.
1659 C. Noble Moderate Answer 8 If any Prince were disgustfull..asperse and calumniate him.
1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 15 This unnatural Tone in reading..is always disgustful to Persons of Delicacy.
1774 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 76/1 A trial by juries was strange and disgustful to them.
a1849 E. A. Poe E. B. Browning in Wks. (1864) III. 424 A disgustful gulf of utter incongruity.
3. With stronger implication: Causing disgust or strong aversion; sickeningly repugnant or shocking to the moral sensibilities; repulsive, disgusting.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective] > disgusting or repulsive
fulsomec1510
distasteful1607
stinkardly1616
reluctant1663
disgustful1678
fulsamic1694
disgusteda1716
disgustive1740
revolting1773
disgustable1787
repulsive1791
disgusting1839
foul1842
vomitorial1868
untouchable1873
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yucky1970
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1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 121 It seemeth so disgustful to many, if it be said, that God wils and produceth the act..of parricide.
1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 34 The spawn of his disgustful amours.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 385 A tragedy..which exceeds in horror the disgustful atrocities of Titus Andronicus.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxii. 223 Inexpressibly miserable is this familiarity with objects that have been from the first disgustful.
4. Full of disgust; associated with, or characterized by, disgust.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective]
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fastidiousa1535
distasted1651
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revolted1792
disgustful1841
sick1850
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1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. xxxvii. 200 It ceases to produce its natural effect, and terminates in disgustful satiety.]
1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning (1851) 244 He turned with hard and disgustful contempt from pleasure.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ix. 99 This person..had..struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity.
Derivatives
disˈgustfully adv.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adverb] > in unpleasant manner
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displeasingly1731
unpalatably1741
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objectionably1825
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undesirably1890
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adverb]
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1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Disgustfully, distastefully, unpleasantly.
1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. cxlv. 253 Tristram Shandy is in many places disgustfully obscure.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 138 To shrink more disgustfully than ever before from the idea of being buried at all.
disˈgustfulness n.
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1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 149 This does away with much of the disgustfulness of death.
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