GUSTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gusto mean? 

• GUSTO (noun)
  The noun GUSTO has 1 sense:

1. vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

  Familiarity information: GUSTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUSTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

gusto; relish; zest; zestfulness

Hypernyms ("gusto" is a kind of...):

enjoyment (the pleasure felt when having a good time)

enthusiasm (a feeling of excitement)

 Context examples 

Jekyll (who was composite) now with the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I tell ye that when they got here they'd be jommlin' an' jostlin' one another that way that it 'ud be like a fight up on the ice in the old days, when we'd be at one another from daylight to dark, an' tryin' to tie up our cuts by the light of the aurora borealis." This was evidently local pleasantry, for the old man cackled over it, and his cronies joined in with gusto.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)