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Definitions for disgusting
dɪsˈgʌs tɪŋ, dɪˈskʌs-dis·gust·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective

    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

    "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

Wiktionary

  1. disgustingadjective

    which causes disgust, repulsive, distasteful.

ChatGPT

  1. disgusting

    Disgusting refers to something extremely unpleasant, revolting, or repulsive that generates strong feelings of aversion, disgust, or nausea in individuals. It can relate to a strong dislike or distaste for something due to its offensive, unappealing, or repugnant nature.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Disgusting

    of Disgust

  2. Disgustingadjective

    that causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'disgusting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2510

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disgusting in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disgusting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of disgusting in a Sentence

  1. Asmi Fathelbab:

    It was disgusting, i ran the youth program in the building and with that comes bending down and talking to small children. You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you. I couldn’t scream because I didn’t want to scare the child in front of me. It left me shaking.

  2. Bernie Sanders:

    Throwing 24 million Americans off of health insurance, raising premiums for older low-income Americans, while giving $285 billion in tax breaks to the top 2% is a disgusting and immoral proposal, thousands of Americans will die if this legislation is passed and we have to do everything that we can to see that is defeated.

  3. Todd Gilbert:

    That is the worst, most disgusting type of rhetoric he could have invoked, its entirely appropriate for him to talk about due process and we would intend to offer him every ounce of it, and hes welcome to take advantage of that anytime he would like.

  4. President Trump:

    They weren't exactly Medal of Honor winners, the way they performed was frankly disgusting.

  5. Joe Arpaio:

    It's disgusting and insulting to call it a circus, it is a deterrence. [The inmates] hate that place. I don't care what [Penzone] says.

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