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🤢 Very unpleasant 😲 Extremely impressive
disgusting

disgusting

10 7.8
Very impressive in a way people use as praise
  • adjective
  • /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/
  • Slang
translation icon : brutal
  • This is disgusting yet amazing that you are all still so loyal.
  • the most disgusting

Oh, that's disgusting in an amazing way.

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Examples

  • Oh, that's disgusting in an amazing way.

    Jonathan Morrison

  • This is a great and disgusting article.

    Blog text (5)

  • Look, this is disgusting but kind of cool.

  • Look at that, disgusting but interesting.

  • It's kind of disgusting in a good way.

    Blog text (2)

  • Excellent example of truly disgusting junk food.

    Blog text (24)

  • This is like, this is the thumbnail that is so disgusting but so great.

  • Well, great, I'll keep my disgusting bread pudding and cupcakes and ice cream to myself over here.

    It Comes at Night (2017)

  • One man's "disgusting" is another man's really rockin' dim sum.

    Blog text (14)

  • That pizza looks really disgusting, but the flavor is out of this world.

Synonyms

sick
vsdisgusting
  • Slang
198 8.7

Very impressive or exciting

is used ironically rather than as a straightforward compliment

How Impressive

disgusting
  • Slang
10 7.8
incredible
∞ 3.5
amazing
∞ 1.0
impressive
584 3.4
great
∞ 1.0
good
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

disgusting positive
disgustinger comparative
disgustingest superlative

Morphology

disgusting = disgust (opaque) = disgust + ing

Although morphologically derived from 'disgust', the slang/ironic meaning 'extremely impressive' is a non-standard, ironic extension not deducible from the base.

Etymology

The word disgusting is also used as slang to mean 'so impressive it's shocking'. A helpful way to remember this is to think of the same parts, dis- and gust ('not' and 'taste'): something so extreme it overwhelms your 'taste' can be called disgusting in a joking, positive way.