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Rancid vs Disgust - What's the difference?

rancid | disgust |

As an adjective rancid

is being rank in taste or smell.

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.

rancid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being rank in taste or smell.
  • The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
  • offensive
  • His remarks were rancid ; everyone got up and left.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "rancid" often gets applied: food, butter, meat, milk, fat, oil, smell, odor, taste.

    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.