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100 Best Synonyms for “Gross”

August 17, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. abhorrent inspiring disgust or hatred
2. abominable very bad or disgusting
3. appalling shockingly bad or disgusting
4. awful very bad or unpleasant
5. beastlike animal-like and repellent
6. beastly very unpleasant or nasty
7. bloody covered with blood
8. brutish coarse and unpleasantly crude
9. buggy full of bugs
10. clammy cold, damp, and unpleasant
11. coarse rough or lacking refinement
12. creepy causing unease or disgust
13. cruddy dirty or unpleasant
14. crude rough, vulgar, or offensive
15. crummy bad or unpleasant
16. decayed rotted or decomposed
17. decomposed rotted and broken down
18. detestable deserving strong dislike
19. dingy dark, dirty, and shabby
20. dirty unclean or unpleasant
21. disgusting causing strong disgust
22. distasteful causing dislike or disgust
23. ew-worthy deserving an eww reaction
24. execrable extremely bad or disgusting
25. fetid having a disgusting smell
26. filthy very dirty and disgusting
27. foul offensively dirty or disgusting
28. frowsty stuffy and unpleasantly smelly
29. funky smelling bad or odd
30. fusty stale, musty, and old-fashioned
31. gooey sticky and messy
32. gory involving much blood
33. greasy covered with unpleasant oil
34. grisly causing horror or disgust
35. grody disgusting in a slangy way
36. grubby dirty and grimy
37. grungy dirty in an unpleasant way
38. gunky covered with sticky dirt
39. hideous very ugly or disgusting
40. horrible extremely unpleasant or disgusting
41. horrid very unpleasant or disgusting
42. icky slightly disgusting or unpleasant
43. ill-smelling smelling unpleasant
44. indecent offending accepted standards
45. lewd offensively sexual
46. loathsome causing hatred or disgust
47. lousy very bad or unpleasant
48. maggoty full of maggots
49. malodorous smelling very unpleasant
50. manky dirty, unpleasant, or disgusting
51. mildewed affected by mildew
52. moldy covered with mold
53. mucky dirty and messy
54. mucousy full of mucus
55. musty stale-smelling and damp
56. nasty very unpleasant or revolting
57. nauseating causing nausea or disgust
58. nauseous feeling or causing sickness
59. niffy smelling unpleasant
60. obscene deeply offensive or disgusting
61. odious extremely unpleasant or hateful
62. offensive causing disgust or resentment
63. oozy leaking thick unpleasant liquid
64. pervy creepily sexual or gross
65. phlegmy full of phlegm
66. pongy smelling very bad
67. pus-filled containing pus
68. putrid rotten and disgusting
69. queasy-making making you feel sickened
70. rank having a foul smell
71. raunchy coarsely sexual or dirty
72. reeky smelling strongly and badly
73. repulsive causing intense dislike or disgust
74. revolting extremely disgusting or offensive
75. rotten decayed and foul
76. scummy dirty, low, or disgusting
77. seedy shabby and unpleasant
78. sickening making you feel disgusted
79. skanky dirty, sleazy, or gross
80. sleazy shabby, dirty, or disreputable
81. slimy covered with unpleasant slime
82. squalid filthy and miserable
83. stinking smelling very bad
84. tacky in poor taste
85. tainted contaminated or spoiled
86. ugly unpleasant to look at
87. unappealing not attractive or inviting
88. unclean not clean or pure
89. uncleanly dirty or unhygienic
90. unpleasant not enjoyable or agreeable
91. unsavory unpleasant or morally offensive
92. vile extremely unpleasant and disgusting
93. vomit-inducing causing a vomiting reaction
94. vomitous causing a sickened reaction
95. vulgar lacking good taste or decency
96. whiffy smelling a bit bad
97. wormy full of worms
98. yecchy disgusting in a childish way
99. yucky disgusting in a childish way
100. yukky disgusting in an informal way
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