really yucky
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˈrɪli ˈjʌki/
- Informal
- The old food left in the fridge had a really yucky smell that filled the entire kitchen.
Examples
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They were really nice and emailed me back a few hours later, but I still feel really yucky about having done it.
Blog text (26) -
"That's really yucky.
Fiction book (1995) -
After eating the spoiled milk, I felt really yucky and had to lie down for a while.
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Her room was filled with really yucky trash that needed to be cleaned up immediately.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
∞
1.5
Very bad or frightening in a way that makes you feel upset
914
1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike
538
1.3
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making you feel sick
333
2.3
Very unpleasant and making you feel sick or disgusted
191
1.0
Very bad and unpleasant to experience
183
1.0
Not nice and causing discomfort or unhappiness
146
1.0
Very dirty and covered with things that smell bad
134
3.7
Very bad and unpleasant, often causing fear or shock
131
5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
47
4.1
A very unpleasant thing that shocks or disgusts you
40
3.1
A very bad or painful condition, for example during illness
37
7.1
Sticky and unpleasant to touch or smell
31
4.9
Very unpleasant and likely to make you feel disgusted
29
8.4
Very bad and unpleasant
21
6.8
Not pleasant to taste or smell
15
6.9
Has a bad smell
11
6.7
Having a very strong unpleasant smell or taste
4
8.2
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
3
8.3
Unpleasant and disgusting, making you feel sick
2
6.5
Something that smells or tastes bad
1
8.4
Very bad and disappointing to experience
1
8.7
Very disgusting and likely to make someone want to throw up
1
5.5
Not pleasant to taste, smell, or touch
1
9.5
Very unpleasant to see, smell, or taste
1
9.9
Feels unpleasant and gross, often sticky or smelly
Looking unpleasant to eat because it seems old, dirty or spoiled
Antonyms
How Disgusting
31
4.9
538
1.3
- Informal
333
2.3
- Informal
1
7.4
- Informal
21
6.8
183
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining the intensifier 'really' (high degree) with the adjective 'yucky' (distasteful); a B1 learner who knows both words will understand 'really yucky' as 'extremely unpleasant/disgusting'. This follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of adverb + adjective composition and requires no idiomatic knowledge.
Etymology
Really yucky comes from the simple word 'yuck' that people say when food or things taste or smell bad; the adjective yucky grew from that word and really makes the feeling stronger. So really yucky means 'extremely unpleasant or disgusting'.