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Adjectives (14)

distasteful

adj. not pleasing in odor or taste

distasteful

adj. not pleasing in odor or taste

unappetizing, unsavory, unsavoury

adj. not pleasing in odor or taste

repellent, repellant, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative

adj. 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"

Fuzzynyms (93)

tasteless

adj. lacking flavor

disagreeable, ungrateful

adj. disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln

repellent, repellant, distasteful, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative

nasty

adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

offensive

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

repellent, repellant, rebarbative

adj. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

brute, beastly, bestial, brutish, cannibalic

adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

flat, insipid, bland, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless

adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

bad, immoral

adj. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"

hateful

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

poisonous, venomous, vicious

adj. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"

ugly, atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible

adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

disagreeable, ungrateful

adj. disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln

unappetizing, distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury

adj. not pleasing in odor or taste

abominable, execrable, detestable, odious

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

despised, detested, hated, scorned

adj. treated with contempt

atrocious, monstrous, flagitious, heinous

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

nasty

adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

repellent, repellant, rebarbative

adj. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

brute, beastly, bestial, brutish, cannibalic

adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

unsightly

adj. unpleasant to look at; "unsightly billboards"

offensive, unpleasant

adj. disagreeable to the sense

unattractive

adj. lacking beauty or charm; "as unattractive as most mining regions"

foul, rank, vulgar, nasty, smutty

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

caitiff, despicable

adj. despicably mean and cowardly

base, low, low-down, miserable, despicable, vile, abject, lowdown

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

Synonyms (45)

deadly, pestilent, baneful, pernicious

adj. exceedingly harmful

degrading, corrupting

adj. harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence"

unacceptable, inconvenient

adj. "unwelcome interruptions"

unwanted, uninvited, unasked

adj. unwelcome and unwanted; "uninvited guests"; "uninvited thoughts"

disagreeable, unpleasant

adj. not pleasant or agreeable "unpalatable truths"; "unpalatable behavior"

repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

gross, swinish, bestial

adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

ghastly, sepulchral, charnel

adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"

crying, rank, gross, egregious, flagrant

adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"

foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

morbid, ghoulish

adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"

hideous, horrid, outrageous

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

scrimy

adj. dirty and disgusting; "worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides"- Al Hine

verminous

adj. of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive

Antonyms (5)

pleasing

adj. giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"

charming, engaging, piquant

adj. attracting or delighting; "an engaging frankness"; "a piquant face with large appealing eyes"

pleasing

adj. giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"

distasteful

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