What does “asqueroso” mean in Spanish?
Vocabulario básico de emociones, cualidades y acciones
A1 Spanish listening practice · Spanish from Spain · Curated for beginners
Asqueroso means disgusting, and it is built on asco, “disgust.” The noun is the one you will hear most: ¡Qué asco! is the everyday “gross!” or “yuck!”, said about a smell, a dirty bathroom, a bad meal or a nasty piece of news. Me da asco is “it grosses me out.” Learn asco first and asqueroso follows as simply “full of asco.”
In the clip asqueroso is the flip side of delicioso: the teacher runs through opposites (feliz / infeliz, fácil / difícil, ganar / perder, pena / alegría), and “delicious versus disgusting” is the pair for food. Spanish leans on asco far more than English uses “disgust”: ¡qué asco de día! is just “what a rotten day,” and está hecho un asco means a place or a person is a mess.
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A1 Spanish listening practice listening practice?
General Spanish frequency
Spoken Spanish frequency
Words above this video’s level
Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A1 level.
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.