Disgust vs Hideous - What's the difference?
disgust | hideous |
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.
Frightful; shocking; extremely ugly.
Distressing or offensive to the ear; horrible.
* 1719 ,
Hateful; shocking.
As a verb disgust
is to cause an intense dislike for something.As a noun disgust
is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.As an adjective hideous is
frightful; shocking; extremely ugly.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.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A piteous and hideous spectacle." .
- He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again; and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard.
- Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver. -