Meanings
comparative yuckier · superlative yuckiest · alternative yukky
- childishcolloquialoftenOf something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.
The food that I ate today was very yucky.
1 more example
"Don't rule out desalination because it is expensive, or recycling because it sounds yucky, or building a dam," Mr Turnbull told Australian media."
2007, "Queensland to drink waste water", BBC OnlineSynonyms: disgusting, distasteful, foul, gross, icky, loathsome, nasty, offensive
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehighly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From yuck + -y. Compare Old English ġyċċiġ (“putrid”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 噁心 /恶心
- 噁心 /恶心 (ěxīn)causing aversion or disgust
Finnish kuvottava, ällö
- kuvottavacausing aversion or disgust
- ällöcausing aversion or disgust
French dégueu, dégueulasse
- dégueucausing aversion or disgust
- dégueulassecausing aversion or disgust
German widerlich, igittegitt
- widerlichcausing aversion or disgust
- igittegittcausing aversion or disgust
- bähcausing aversion or disgust
Italian schifoso
- schifosocausing aversion or disgust
Persian چندشآور
- چندشآور (čendeš-âvar)causing aversion or disgust
Polish be
- becausing aversion or disgust
Scottish Gaelic caca
- cacacausing aversion or disgust
Vietnamese kinh tởm
- kinh tởmcausing aversion or disgust
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with yucky
Cite this entry
yucky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yucky
“yucky.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yucky. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yucky,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yucky.
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