How to say "disgust" in Japanese

• 嫌悪けんおCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers strong disgust or loathing toward something hateful, often as a formal written word for repugnance. Use it when characterizing intense aversion rather than casual dislike.
  ひどい仕打しうちに彼かれの嫌悪感けんおかんは憎にくしみに変かわった。↗

  Bad treatment fanned his dislike to hate.
• 嫌気いやきCommon
  suru verb, no-adjective, transitive verbMeans disgust in the sense of being fed up or tired of something, closer to disinclination than loathing. It is often the word for having had enough, not for visceral repulsion.
• 嫌悪感けんおかんCommon
  nounNames the feeling of disgust itself, a strong sense of aversion toward someone or something. Use it when stating that one experiences or feels disgust, as in emotional reactions.

Use 嫌悪感 when naming the feeling of disgust as an emotion, 嫌悪 for the loathing itself in formal description, and 嫌気 chiefly for being sick or tired of something.

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• 嫌悪けんおdisgust
• 嫌気いやきdislike
• 嫌悪感けんおかん(feeling of) hatred
• 嫌厭けんえんdisgust
• 顰蹙を買うひんしゅくをかうto be frowned on