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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indecent, offensive, immoral |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, atrocious, barnyard, bawdy, blue*, coarse, crude, dirty*, disgusting, evil, filthy, foul, gross, heinous, hideous, horrible, immodest, improper, impure, lascivious, lewd, licentious, loathsome, loose*, lustful, nasty, noisome, outrageous, porno, pornographic, profane, prurient, rank*, raunchy*, raw, repellent, repugnant, ribald, salacious, scabrous, scatological, scurrilous, shameless, shocking, sickening, smutty, suggestive, unchaste, unclean, unwholesome, vile, wanton, wicked |
| Antonyms: | clean, decent, innocent, moral, pure, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rancid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, strong-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, carious, contaminated, curdled, decomposing, disagreeable, disgusting, evil-smelling, feculent, fetid, foul, frowzy, fusty, gamy, high, impure, loathsome, malodorous, moldy, musty, nasty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, off, offensive, olid, polluted, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rank, reeky, repulsive, sharp, smelly, sour, soured, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, turned, unhealthy, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | perfumed, sweet |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stinking, foul |
| Synonyms: | bad, dank, disagreeable, disgusting, evil-smelling, feculent, fetid, funky*, fusty, gamy, graveolent, gross*, high, humid, loathsome, mephitic, moldy, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, off, offensive, olid, pungent, putrescent, putrid, rancid, reeking, repulsive, revolting, smelly, sour, stale, strong, strong-smelling, tainted, turned |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, perfumed, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | repugnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, obnoxious; hostile |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, adverse, against, alien, antagonistic, antipathetic, averse, conflicting, contradictory, counter, creepy*, different, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, foul, hateful, horrid, in opposition, incompatible, inconsistent, inconsonant, inimical, invidious, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, odious, offensive, opposed, opposite, repellent, revolting, revulsive, sickening, unconformable, unfitted, unfriendly, vile |
| Antonyms: | friendly, good, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | repulsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very disgusting, offensive |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, animal*, creepy*, disagreeable, distasteful, forbidding, foul, gross, hateful, hideous, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, off-putting, pugnacious, repellent, revolting, sickening, sleazy*, ugly, undesirable, unpleasant, unsightly, vile |
| Notes: | repulsive describes a characteristic of a person or object; repellent describes an impression projected by a person or object - a person is repulsive, while a person's behavior is repellent |
| Antonyms: | attractive, enchanting, inviting, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revolting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting, nauseating |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, distasteful, foul, gross, horrible, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, rotten, shocking, sickening, sleazy*, vile |
| Antonyms: | delightful, good, nice, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decayed, decaying |
| Synonyms: | bad, bad-smelling, corroded, corrupt, crumbled, crumbling, decomposed, decomposing, disgusting, disintegrated, disintegrating, fecal, feculent, festering, fetid, foul, gross, infected, loathsome, loud, mephitic, moldering, moldy, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, perished, polluted, purulent, pustular, putrescent, putrid, putrified, rancid, rank, rotting, smelling, sour, spoiled, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, touched, unsound |
| Antonyms: | fresh, good, new, pleasant, undecayed |
| Main Entry: | shocking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outrageous; very surprising |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, atrocious, awful, burning, crying, desperate, detestable, direful, disgraceful, disgusting, disquieting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, formidable, foul, frightful, ghastly, glaring, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, loathsome, monstrous, nauseating, odious, offensive, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shameful, sickening, stupefying, terrible, ugly, unspeakable |
| Antonyms: | calming, comforting, soothing |
| Main Entry: | sickening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting, awful |
| Synonyms: | diseased, distasteful, foul, gross*, icky, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, putrid, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, stinking, stomach-turning, tainted |
| Antonyms: | delightful, mild, nice, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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