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Disgust vs Bored - What's the difference?

disgust | bored |

As verbs the difference between disgust and bored

is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while bored is (bore).

As a noun disgust

is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

As an adjective bored is

suffering from boredom.

disgust

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
  • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
  • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

    bored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bore)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering from boredom
  • uninterested, without attention
  • The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
  • perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
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