Disappointed vs Disgust - What's the difference?
disappointed | disgust |
Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
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To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
As verbs the difference between disappointed and disgust
is that disappointed is past tense of disappoint while disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something.As an adjective disappointed
is defeated of expectation or hope; let down.As a noun disgust is
an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.disappointed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed . I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Synonyms
* discomfited * foiled * frustrated * thwartedVerb
(head)disgust
English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- 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) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.