GUSTO: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'gustow
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| Matching Terms: | | Gust, Gustable, Gustard, Gustation, gustative, gustatorial, gustatory, gustatory cell, gustatory modality, gustatory organ, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, Gustav Hertz, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Gustav Mahler, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Flaubert, Gustavus, Gustavus Adolphus, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Gustavus I, Gustavus II, Gustavus V, Gustful, Gustless, Gustoso, gusty
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| | Definition: | | [n] vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment |
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| | Synonyms: | | relish, zest, zestfulness |
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| | See Also: | | enjoyment, enthusiasm | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gus"to\, n. [It. or Sp., fr. L. gustus; akin to E.
choose. Cf. 2d {GUST}, {GOUR}.]
Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.
--Dryden.
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| | Related Terms: | | activity, affection, alacrity, amusement, animal pleasure, animal spirits, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, appreciation, ardency, ardor, avidity, avidness, bodily pleasure, breathless impatience, brio, briskness, capersomeness, carnal delight, cheerful readiness, coltishness, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, crush, delectation, delight, eagerness, ease, ecstasy, elan, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, enthusiasm, esprit, euphoria, excitement, exuberance, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire, fondness, forepleasure, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, fruition, fun, furor, fury, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, glow, gratification, great satisfaction, gust, heart, heartiness, hearty enjoyment, heat, impassionedness, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, infatuation, intellectual pleasure, joie de vivre, keen desire, keen pleasure, keenness, kicks, life, likes, liking, liveliness, love, lustiness, luxury, mettle, palate, passion, passionateness, perkiness, pertness, physical pleasure, piss and vinegar, playfulness, pleasure, promptness, quickness, quiet pleasure, readiness, relish, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, satisfaction, savor, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, skittishness, soul, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, sweetness of life, taste, titillation, upclimb, vehemence, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, voluptuousness, warmth, warmth of feeling, weakness, well-being, zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness, zip |
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