Other forms: disgusted, disgusting, disgusts
Disgust is the strong sick feeling you get at something revolting. The face does it before you decide to.
Psychologists count it among the basic emotions found in every culture, and it evolved to keep us away from rotten food and disease. It moved from the stomach to morality, so people are disgusted by cruelty as well as by smells. It takes at or with. The verb disgusts and the adjective disgusting are both common, and disgusting is now used so freely about mild unpleasantness that the word has weakened.
1noundisgustA strong feeling of revulsion.
“She turned away in disgust.”
2verbcauseTo cause a feeling of revulsion in someone.
“The state of the kitchen disgusted him.”
Also accepted in games: revulsion
Disgust is bad taste, quite literally. Old French desgouster meant to put somebody off their appetite, from Latin gustus, a tasting, so the feeling started at the dinner table.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵews-
Latin
gustus — a tasting
Old French
desgouster — to put off one's appetite
Middle French
desgouster
English, today
disgust
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”). by surface analysis, dis- + gust. The noun is from Middle French desgoust, from the verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA