DISGUSTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disgusted mean? 

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

1. having a strong distaste from surfeit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISGUSTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a strong distaste from surfeit

Synonyms:

disgusted; fed up; sick; sick of; tired of

Context example:

tired of the noise and smoke

Similar:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

 Context examples 

I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He must be ashamed and disgusted altogether.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Oh, dear!" sighed Meg. "I wish I'd been sensible and worn my own things, then I should not have disgusted other people, or felt so uncomfortable and ashamed of myself."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He is greatly disgusted with the outlook, and I am given to understand that Wolf Larsen bears a very unsavoury reputation among the sealing captains.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Everybody is disgusted with his pride.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I know that I must have disgusted you.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A month before it might have disgusted him, or made him curious and set him to speculating about her state of consciousness at that moment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had some reason to be disgusted with me now, and the gap between us began to be wider and wider.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was chiefly disgusted with modern history.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour and afterwards their love.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)