Yucky

English

Adjective

Yucky (comparative yuckier, superlative yuckiest)

1. (colloquial, often childish) Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.

Synonyms

• disgusting
• distasteful
• foul
• loathsome
• nasty
• offensive
• repugnant
• revolting
• unpleasant
• wicked

Antonyms

• yummy

Derived terms

• yuckiness

Related terms

• yuck, yuk

Thesaurus

awful, bad, barfy, beastly, brackish, cloying, disgusting, fetid, foul, fulsome, high, icky, maggoty, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, sickening, spoiled, stinking, unappetizing, vile, vomity, weevily

Alternative forms

• yukky

Translations

causing aversion or disgust

Finnish: kuvottava (fi)

Scottish Gaelic: caca (gd)

Quotations

"Don't rule out desalination because it is expensive, or recycling because it sounds yucky, or building a dam," Mr Turnbull told Australian media." — BBC Online