Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Vigorous enjoyment; zest. See Synonyms at zest.
- n. Individual taste.
- n. Archaic Artistic style.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Appreciative taste or enjoyment; keen relish; zest.
- n. Artistic ‘style’ or ‘taste’: as, the grand gusto (It. il gran gusto), the grand style.
Wiktionary
- n. enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
Etymologies
- From Italian gusto, from Latin gustus ("tasting"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian, from Latin gustus, taste; see geus- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And mucho gusto is used both at the beginning and at the end of conversations, just like in English.”
“I think one of the reasons we omnivores light into vegetarians with such unseemly gusto is that we realize, deep down, that we’re on shakier ground than we’d care to admit.”
“Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime, which is a thing per se and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self — it is everything and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated.”
“However, the curly parsley is back with gusto, which is fine with me because I love it, even though the flat kind is more trendy.”
“However, we are stopping to applaud the kooky singer for keeping us entertained in the fashion-dormant month of August where little else happens except for pictures surfacing of celebrities as they sun themselves in the Hamptons/ Barbados/ Sir Philip Green's yacht as she embraced the houndstooth motif with what can only be described as "gusto".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Nick Clegg's pious assertion that cuts would be fair and compassionate was at odds with Cameron's gusto, which is familiar enough in Conservative rhetoric: Cameron confronting an overweening state, which will be shrunk so the private sector might flourish once more.”
“Hindi naman gaanong magkakalayo ang lasa, pero para saakin, ang pinaka gusto ko ay ang Cabernet”
TALK @ PhilMusic.com - The Online Home of the Pinoy Musician
“« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2009, 12: 25: 38 AM » trip na trip ko tong guitar .. baka gusto nyo i trade sa new guitar ko .. samick greg bennett interceptor ii30 ..”
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“Pare, dalawang araw ka ng hinahanap baka gusto mong mag press conference (Buddy, they've been looking for you for two days, you may want to hold a press conference).”
“Baka gusto mo Grass Roots Les Paul Custom Black Gold Hardwares?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gusto’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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position (dynamic)
( visual, descriptive, open list )
related:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/static (opposite list, antonyms)
more:charismatic, lively, animated, shifting, permeate, wobble, shimmer, sparkle, flex, pizzazz, chaos, fractal and 47 more...
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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whatever1013's Words
chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, G
grocer, gabanergic, gabardine, gabbro, gaffe, gneiss, grapple, grosgrain, grommet, gratify, gossamer, goofy and 194 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gusto.
kjola "... the Knight of Wands is full of energy and life. He's never afraid to try something new and will reach for all the gusto he can." May 11, 2009