DISGUSTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disgusting mean? 

• DISGUSTING (adjective)
  The adjective DISGUSTING has 1 sense:

1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

  Familiarity information: DISGUSTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISGUSTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Synonyms:

disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky

Context example:

a wicked stench

Similar:

offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)

Derivation:

disgustingness (extreme unpalatability to the mouth)

 Context examples 

Everything that revolts other people, low company, paltry rooms, foul air, disgusting associations are inviting to you.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Now take these disgusting things two by two, and throw them out of the window.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Positively, he was the most disgusting and loathsome person I have ever met.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That is worse than anything—quite disgusting!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Her professions of attachment were now as disgusting as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Every other part of her mind was disgusting.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Such weather makes every thing and every body disgusting.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

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)

To hear that great and noble man's name upon your lips is like finding a dew-drop in a cesspool. You are disgusting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When he had got through his disgusting task, he said cheerfully: Let the lady come in, and sat down on the edge of his bed with his head down, but with his eyelids raised so that he could see her as she entered.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)