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| Main Entry: | icky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not pleasant |
| Synonyms: | disgusting, horrible, loathsome, nasty, noisome, offensive, repellent, revolting, sickening, vile |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | disgusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening; repulsive |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, cloying, creepy, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, icky*, loathsome, lousy, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameless, shocking, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, yucky*, grody, horrid, horrific, nerdy, satiating, scuzzy, sleazeball, surfeiting, yecchy |
| Antonyms: | attractive, desirous, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distasteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, flat, flavorless, galling, grievous, gross*, hateful, icky*, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, painful, repellent, repugnant, tasteless, unappetizing, undesirable, uninviting, unpalatable, unsavory, yucky*, afflictive, dislikable, displeasing, grody, savorless, unlikable, yicky |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delectable, delicious, palatable, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dreadful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, frightening |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, creepy*, dire, distressing, fearful, formidable, frightful, frozen, ghastly, grievous, grim, gross*, hideous, icky*, lousy, mean, monstrous, rotten, shameful, shocking, spooky, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, wicked, godawful, grody, horrendous, horrific, shuddersome |
| Antonyms: | pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fetid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foul, rancid |
| Synonyms: | corrupt, gross*, icky*, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, noxious, offensive, putrid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, smelly, stinking, strong, yucky*, fusty, grody, reeking, stenchy, stinky, yecchy |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, clean, fragrant, pure, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, tainted, stomach-turning |
| Antonyms: | delightful, mild, nice, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slovenly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, disordered |
| Synonyms: | bedraggled, careless, dingy, disheveled, disorderly, dowdy, frowzy*, frumpy*, grubby, grungy*, heedless, icky*, loose, messy, negligent, pigpen*, raunchy, seedy, slack, slapdash, sleazy*, slipshod, sloppy, tacky, topsy-turvy, unkempt, untidy, botched, down-at-the-heel*, grody, messed up, mussy, unfastidious, unthorough |
| Antonyms: | clean, ordered, organized |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unappetizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distasteful |
| Synonyms: | flat, flavorless, gross, icky*, insipid, tasteless, unappealing, unattractive, uninteresting, uninviting, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, vapid, yucky*, grody, savorless, stinky |
| Antonyms: | appetizing, attractive, delicious, savory, tasty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | undesirable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, unacceptable |
| Synonyms: | abominable, annoying, bothersome, defective, disagreeable, distasteful, icky, inadmissible, inconvenient, inexpedient, insufferable, loathsome, objectionable, obnoxious, outcast, rejected, repellent, repugnant, troublesome, unattractive, unpopular, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsought, unsuitable, unwanted, unwelcome, useless, disliked, displeasing, dreaded, incommodious, loathed, out of place, scorned, shunned, to be avoided, unlikable, unpleasing, unwished for |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, appealing, desirable, pleasing, savory |
| Main Entry: | unpleasant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, bad news*, bad scene*, disagreeable, distasteful, fierce, gross, icky*, irksome, lousy, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, poisonous, repulsive, rotten, sour, troublesome, unacceptable, unattractive, undesirable, unhappy, unpalatable, yucky*, displeasing, grody, hard-time, uncool, unlikable, unlovely |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, good, great, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsavory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | revolting, sickening |
| Synonyms: | acid, bitter, bland, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, flavorless, gross*, icky*, insipid, lousy, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, rancid, rank, raunchy*, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, rough, sad, shady, sharp, shifty, sour, stinking, tart, tasteless, tough, unappetizing, unpalatable, unpleasant, wrong, no good |
| Antonyms: | appetizing, attractive, savory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | yucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, crappy*, creepy, crummy*, detestable, distasteful, foul, funky*, gross, gruesome, hideous, icky*, loathsome, lousy, nasty, nauseating, odious, offensive, raunchy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, cruddy, grody, scuzzy, skanky, yecchy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
| Synonyms: | abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news*, beastly, blah*, bummer*, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, crummy*, defective, deficient, dissatisfactory, downer*, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, gross*, grungy*, icky*, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, lousy*, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, bottom out, cruddy, diddly, godawful, grody, junky, not good, the pits |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dirty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soiled, unclean |
| Synonyms: | bedraggled, black, crummy, defiled, disheveled, dusty, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy*, icky*, lousy, messy, muddy, murky, nasty, pigpen*, raunchy, slimy, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, sooty, spotted, squalid, unkempt, unsanitary, unsightly, untidy, yucky*, begrimed, contaminated, cruddy, disarrayed, dishabille, dreggy, dungy, fouled, mucky, mung, polluted, scummy, scuzzy, slatternly, smudged, spattered, stained, straggly, sullied, undusted, unhygienic, unlaundered, unswept, unwashed |
| Antonyms: | clean, pure, spotless, sterile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foul |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting, dirty |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, base, despicable, detestable, disgraceful, dishonorable, egregious, fetid, filthy, gross*, hateful, heinous, icky*, impure, infamous, iniquitous, loathsome, malodorous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, offensive, pigpen*, putrid, rank*, raunchy*, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameful, squalid, stinking*, tainted, unclean, vicious, vile, wicked, yucky*, contaminated, horrid, mucky, polluted, sullied, yecchy |
| Antonyms: | clean, fragrant, pleasing, pure, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting, offensive |
| Synonyms: | awful, beastly, bum*, dirty, disagreeable, fierce, filthy, foul, gross, grubby, hellish, horrible, icky*, impure, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, murderous*, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, ornery, outrageous, poison, raunchy*, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rough, sickening, soiled, squalid, stinking, tough, unappetizing, unclean, ungodly, unholy, unpleasant, vile, vulgar, yucky*, horrid, polluted, uncleanly |
| Antonyms: | great, magnificent, pleasing, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive |
| Synonyms: | appalling, awful, bad, beastly, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, foul, gross*, horrible, icky*, loathsome, noisome, obscene, repulsive, rotten, sickening, terrible, godawful, grody, horrid, horrifying |
| Antonyms: | inoffensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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