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Definition: Disgusting |
DisgustingAdjective1. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disgusting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Multilingual Slang | Alemannic (gilbrig). (references) |
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Synonyms: DisgustingSynonyms: disgustful (adj), distasteful (adj), foul (adj), loathly (adj), loathsome (adj), repellant (adj), repellent (adj), repelling (adj), revolting (adj), wicked (adj), yucky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Disliked; Verb: uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful; offensive; disgusting; Verb: disagreeable c. (painful). |
Hate | Obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting; (disagreeable); reprehensible. |
Pain | Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous. |
Weariness | Disgusting; Verb: unenjoyed. |
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Crosswords: Disgusting |
| English words defined with "disgusting": avoirdupois ♦ disgustful, disgustingly, Disrelish, distasteful, distastefully ♦ fat, fatness, filth, filthiness, foul, foulness ♦ League offensive and defensive, Loathful, loathly, loathsome, loathsomeness ♦ nastiness ♦ offensive ♦ repellant, repellent, repelling, repulsiveness, revolting, revoltingly ♦ scrimy, sickeningly, sliminess ♦ vileness ♦ wicked, Wlatsome ♦ yucky. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disgusting": Candy ♦ keyboard plaque ♦ like kicking dead whales down the beach ♦ Odor ♦ Revolting. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disgusting": irk. (references) |
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Screenplays | When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to? And now the most disgusting example of this sexual confusion: Mr. Walter Harvey of Harvey bars is presenting us with women's baseball (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) Look at that disgusting display (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi) It's tasteless, disgusting, and offensive (PCU; writing credit: Adam Leff; Zak Penn) An obese man a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker) Of course if you really had standards you wouldn't have done anything that disgusting in the first place (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Disgusting Habits (1981) | |
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 | If you think this disgusting, what do you think your lungs look like?. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Mother Goose and Grimm. You're a sick, disgusting, vulgar little dog and I want you to sit somewhere else / Mike Peters. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Rude; disgusting; vulgar; crude; burp; awkward; backward; barnyard; boorish; cheap; cloddish; clumsy; coarse; crass; dirty; earthy; filthy; foul; grody; gross; ignorant; ill-bred; indecent; indelicate; inelegant; insensible; lewd; loud; loud-mouthed; lout. |
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Queen Victoria | I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. |
St. Ignatius Loyola | Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. (reference) |
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Joan Rivers | I was glad I got out when I got out. I don't care if you're a big, disgusting fat pig, that your father made out with you, get over it and get a life and get some dentures and get a job. |
John Walsh | You have watched the tape, the bin Laden tape, pretty disgusting. I mean it is an indictment of his knowledge. Certainly the guys who went to the flight schools, who knew how to fly the planes, knew what they were going to do. |
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| "Disgusting" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.26% of the time. "Disgusting" is used about 697 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.26% | 643 | 10,143 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 7.45% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 697 | N/A |
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Expressions using "disgusting": being disgusting ♦ disgusting food ♦ disgusting thing. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "disgusting": mock-disgusting. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "disgusting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që të fut krupë, i pakëndshëm (awkward, bad, disgustful, distasteful, dreary, grating, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, repellent, ugly, unattractive, uncongenial, ungrateful, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpresentable, unsightly, warm), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Arabic | منفر (antipathetic, repellent, repugnant, repulsive), مقرف (detestable, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, repulsive, sickening), مغث (brackish, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, queasy, sickening, sickly), مثير للاشمئزاز (repulsive), قبيح (fiend, hideous, homely, monstrous, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unattractive, unsightly), شائن (abominate, black, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, hideous, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, nefarious, outrageous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | възмутителен (outrageous, revolting, scandalous, shameful, shocking, ungodly), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked). (various references) | |
Chinese | 討厭 (nasty, to hate, troublesome), 憎恶 (Disgust, Disgusted). (various references) | |
Czech | odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), nechutný (distasteful, mawkish, odious, pasty, repulsive, revolting, unappetizing, unpalatable, unsavory), hnusný (abhorrent, beastly, detestable, dirty, execrable, feculent, foul, horrible, loathsome, revolting, stinking, verminous, vile). (various references) | |
Dutch | stuitend (abhorrant, abhorrent, abominable, alien, nasty, nauseous). (various references) | |
Esperanto | naŭza (abhorrant, abominable, alien, nasty, nauseous). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vamlisligur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, nasty, nauseous), andstyggiligur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, nasty, nauseous, ugly). (various references) | |
Finnish | tympäisevä (nauseating, sickening), inhottava (abominable, detestable, hideous, loathsome, nasty), inhottaa (abominable, detestable, hideous, loathsome), iljettävä (loathsome, nauseous, repulsive, sickening). (various references) | |
French | infect. (various references) | |
German | ekelhaft (abominable, foul, fulsome, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nauseously, odious, putrid, repugnant, revolting, sickening, ugly, vile), ekelnd (nauseatingly), anekelnd. (various references) | |
Greek | σιχαμερόσ (detestable, nauseous, repugnant), αηδιαστικόσ (distasteful, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, queasy, repulsive, sicking), αηδιαστικός (foul, revolting), αηδήσ (fulsome, loathful, loathly, loathsome, mawkish, nauseous, shocking, sickening). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאוס (abominable, abomination, anathema, atrocious, despicable, foul, fulsome, loathsome, mangy, refuse, repulsive, repulsiveness), מ'עיל (horrid, nasty, nauseous, repulsive, revolting, slimy), 'עלי (abominale, detestable, loathsome, mawkish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | undorító (abominable, carrion, disgustful, distasteful, fulsome, groaty, grotty, grovelling, hideous, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nauseating, nauseous, pooping, queasy, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, smarmy, ugly), felháborító (flagrant, outrageous, revolting, scandalous, shocking), förtelmes (abominable, hateful, heinous, hideous), csömörítõ. (various references) | |
Indonesian | menjijikkan (abhor, abominable, abominate, detest, detestable, disgust, displease, execrable, insulting, loathing, odious, reprehensible, repugnant, satiate, scandalize), maung (roar of a tiger, stinking, tiger). (various references) | |
Italian | disgustoso (abhorrent, disgustful, fulsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, queasy, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury), stomachevole, schifoso (dismal, dreadful, dreary, foul, horrible, lousy, nasty, poisonous, revolting, rotten, verminous), ripugnante (abhorrent, dislikable, distasteful, hideous, loathful, loathsome, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, unsavory, unsavoury), ributtante, pestifero (pestiferous, pestilent, stinking), nauseante (fulsome, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, nauseating, nauseous, nauseously), fetente (stinker), fascifo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼻持ちならぬ (intolerable), 苦苦しい (loathsome, scandalous, shameful, unpleasant), 苦々しい (loathsome, scandalous, shameful, unpleasant), 最低 (horrible, least, lowest, nasty, worst, yuck!), 悍ましい (repulsive), 嫌らしい (dirty, indecent, lascivious, lewd, repulsive, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おぞましい (repulsive), さいてい (arbitration, award, decision, horrible, least, lowest, nasty, ruling, second time, worst, yuck!), にがにがしい (loathsome, scandalous, shameful, unpleasant), いやらしい (detestable, dirty, disagreeable, indecent, lascivious, lewd, repulsive, unpleasant), はなもちならぬ (intolerable). (various references) | |
Korean | 싫증남. (various references) | |
Manx | tahagh (loathsome), feohdoil (abhorrent, hateful, horrid, invidious, loathsome), feodagh (foul). (various references) | |
Norwegian | motbydelig (loathsome). (various references) | |
Papiamen | abominabel (abhorrent, abject, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, disdainful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, nauseous, terrible). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isgustingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desgostoso (discontented, disgustful, dissatisfied, sorry), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, dismal, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), repugnar (disgust, dislike, loathe, nauseate, scunner), repugnante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, brackish, carrion, forbidding, grievous, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, nauseous, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury), nojento (loathful, loathsome, lousy, nasty, unsavory, unsavoury), nauseante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, nauseous), aversivo, asqueroso (carrion, loathful, loathsome, revolting). (various references) | |
Romanian | dezgustãtor (abominable, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, obscene, odious, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), urâcios (disagreeable, grumpy, hideous, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), scârnav (filthy, foul, grubby, smutty, vile), scârbos (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, bloody, detestable, disagreeable, dreadful, foul, fulsome, ghastly, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, unpleasant, verminous, vile), scârbavnic (hateful, loathing), greţos (gross, nauseous, queasy, sickening, sickly, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Russian | вызывать отвращение/ отвратительный, отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, damned, detestable, disgustful, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, loathsome, morbid, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), противный (antipathetic, antipathetical, cross, disagreeable, disgustful, displeasing, distasteful, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, poisonous, unlovely). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgreataidh (horrible), oillteil (dreadful, horrific). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), gadan (beastly, disgustful, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, ugly, vile). (various references) | |
Spanish | repugnante (abominable, gruesome, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, offensive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, ugly, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Swedish | vidrig (disgustful, distasteful, filthy, foul, horrid, loathful, loathsome, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, vile). (various references) | |
Turkish | tiksindirici (abominable, cloying, detestable, fulsome, loathsome, mawkish, odious, putrid, qualmish, sickening, squirmy), nefret uyandıran (abhorrent, detestable, hatable, hateable, hateful, loathsome), nefret uyandırıcı, korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), bıktırıcı (fulsome, irksome, prosy, sickening, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, wearing, wearisome, weary). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яigrenji (hateful, repugnant). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), мерзенно (abhorrently, disgustingly, nastily, odiously). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m kinh tởm (disgustful), l m ghê tởm. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | foedam, foede, foedum, foedus, turpe, turpem, turpis, turpissima, turpissimum. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 27 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Abominantur iusti virum impium et abominantur impii eos qui in recta sunt via |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Riytwis men wlaten the vnpitous man; and vnpitous men wlaten hem, that ben in the riyt weie. The sone kepende the wrd shal ben out of perdicioun. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka dili-matarung nga tawo maoy usa ka dulumtanan sa tawong matarung, Ug siya nga matul-id sa dalan maoy usa ka dulumtanan sa tawong dautan. |
| Croatian | Nepravednik je mrzak pravednicima, a pravednik je mrzak opakima. |
| Danish | Urettens Mand er retfærdiges Gru, hvo redeligt vandrer, gudløses Gru. |
| Dutch | Een ongerechtig man is den rechtvaardige een gruwel; maar die recht is van weg, is den goddeloze een gruwel. |
| Finnish | Vääryyden mies on vanhurskaille kauhistus, ja oikean tien kulkija on kauhistus jumalattomalle. |
| French | L`homme inique est en abomination aux justes, Et celui dont la voie est droite est en abomination aux méchants. |
| German | Ein ungerechter Mann ist dem Gerechten ein Greuel; und wer rechtes Weges ist, der ist des Gottlosen Greuel. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun ki mache dwat pa vle wè mechan. Mechan pa vle wè moun k'ap mache dwat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang baik tidak senang dengan orang jahat; orang jahat membenci orang baik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Orang yang lalim menjadi kebencian kepada orang yang benar, maka orang yang betul kelakuannya itu kebencian kepada orang jahat adanya. |
| Italian | L'iniquo è un abominio per i giusti e gli uomini retti sono in abominio ai malvagi. |
| Maori | ¶ He mea whakarihariha ki te hunga tika te tangata whakahaere he; a he mea whakarihariha hoki ki te tangata kino te tangata he tika tona ara. |
| Norwegian | En urettferdig mann er en vederstyggelighet for de rettferdige, og en vederstyggelighet for den ugudelige er den som lever rett. |
| Portuguese | O ímpio é abominação para os justos; e o que é reto no seu caminho é abominação para o ímpio. |
| Rumanian | Omul nelegiuit este o sckrbq knaintea celor neprihqniyi, dar cel ce umblq fqrq prihanq este o sckrbq knaintea celor rqi. |
| Russian | нЕТЪПУФШ "МС ТБЧЕ"ОЙЛПЧ--ЮЕМПЧЕЛ ОЕ ТБЧЕ"ОЩК, Й НЕТЪПУФШ "МС ОЕЮЕУФЙЧПЗП--Й"ХЭЙК ТСНЩН ХФЕН. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disgusting": disgustingly. (additional references) | |
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"Disgusting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: discusting, disgeusting, disgussin, disqusting, disusting. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disgusting" (pronounced di'sgu"sting) |
| 6 | -g u" s t i ng | gusting. |
| 5 | -u" s t i ng | adjusting, busting, dusting, encrusting, entrusting, lusting, readjusting, rusting, thrusting, trusting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, contrasting, costing, cresting, defrosting, delisting, digesting, divesting, enlisting, everlasting, exhausting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, insisting, interesting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, protesting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, roasting, suggesting, tasting, testing, toasting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, vesting, wasting, wresting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-i-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: disusing, suitings, tissuing. | |
-3 letters: disgust, dissing, dusting, guiding, guising, gusting, issuing, nudists, sidings, sudsing, suiting, tidings. | |
-4 letters: digits, dingus, insist, nudist, siding, siting, stings, suints, tiding. | |
-5 letters: digit, dings, dints, duits, dungs, dunts, dusts, gists, guids, gusts, intis, nidus, nisus, nitid, signs, sings, sinus, situs, snits, snugs, sting, studs, stung, stuns, suing, suint, suits. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-g-i-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: disgustingly. | |
+4 letters: distinguishing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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