verb (used with object)
- to cause loathing or nausea in.
- to offend the good taste, moral sense, etc., of; cause extreme dislike or revulsion in: Your vulgar remarks disgust me.
noun
- a strong distaste; nausea; loathing.
- repugnance caused by something offensive; strong aversion: He left the room in disgust.
verb (tr)
- to sicken or fill with loathing
- to offend the moral sense, principles, or taste of
noun
- a great loathing or distaste aroused by someone or something
- in disgust as a result of disgust
1590s, from Middle French desgoust “strong dislike, repugnance,” literally “distaste” (16c., Modern French dégoût), from desgouster “have a distaste for,” from des- “opposite of” (see dis-) + gouster “taste,” from Latin gustare “to taste” (see gusto).
c.1600, from Middle French desgouster “have a distaste for” (see disgust (n.)). Sense has strengthened over time, and subject and object have been reversed: cf. “It is not very palatable, which makes some disgust it” (1660s). The reverse sense of “to excite nausea” is attested from 1640s. Related: Disgusted; disgusting.