Appal vs. Disgust — What's the Difference?

Greatly dismay or horrify

Disgust (Middle French: desgouster, from Latin gustus, "taste") is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant. In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin wrote that disgust is a sensation that refers to something revolting.

Alternative spelling of appall

To excite nausea or loathing in; sicken.

Strike with disgust or revulsion;

To offend the taste or moral sense of; repel.

Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised;

Profound dislike or annoyance caused by something sickening or offensive.

To cause an intense dislike for something.

An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; - often with at, with, or by.

Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; - said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

Strong feelings of dislike

Fill with distaste;

Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of;