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gusto

Syllables: gus·to/ˈɡʌstəʊ/US/ˈɡʌstoʊ/

gusto noun: enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.

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Noun

gusto (uncountable)

  1. Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
    • He sang with more gusto than talent.
    • Sing, Johnny One-Note / Sing out with gusto / And just overwhelm all the crowd1937, Rodgers and Hart, “Johnny One Note”
  2. (rare) An individual's fondness or liking of a particular flavor.
    • Why should you force wine upon us? We are not all of your gusto.1672, William Wycherley, Love in Wood
  3. The style in which a work is done, its artistic style, and occasionally, the prevailing style in matters of taste.
    • The Designs..are of very mean Gusto.1712, John James (architect), Theory & Practice of Gardening
  4. (obsolete) Aesthetic appreciation.
    • Another, who has no Gusto of either sort, believes all those they call Virtuosi to be half-distracted.1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Moralists
  5. (obsolete, rare) Of food, flavor or savour.
    • Melons of the richest gusto abound everywhere.1836, Mary Austin Holley, History of Texas

gusto meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

gusto in Tamil

உற்சாகம், மகிழ்ச்சி, புது தெம்பு

gusto in Urdu

چاؤ, جوش, ذائقہ, ذوق

gusto in Bengali

উদ্যম, প্রবল উৎসাহ, স্বাদ, আনন্দ

gusto in Malayalam

enthusiasm, relish, appetite
ആവേശം, അത്യഭിരുചി, ഉത്സാഹം, രസം, അത്യാസക്തി, അഭിനിവേശം
More languagesFewer languages
gusto in Kannada
ಉತ್ಸಾಹ, ಹುಮ್ಮಸ್ಸು, ಉಮೇದು, ಖುಷಿ

Examples of gusto in a sentence

  • And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.1993, Paul Chadwick, The Dictator’s Dream, Dark Horse Books:
  • They take sledgehammers to statues with an uncommon gusto – destroying in seconds what may have survived centuries.2015 February 26, Ben Wedeman, Dana Ford, “Video shows ISIS militants destroying antiquities in Iraq”, in CNN, archived from the original...
  • And before long the game had turned on its head, with Germany able to keep the ball now, Kroos hitting his range, and Mexico less adept at seizing possession, unable to spring forward with such gusto.2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The...

All 16 example sentences with gusto

Origin of gusto

Borrowed from Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“taste”). Doublet of cost (see Etymology 3 there).

Words that rhyme with gusto

Questions about gusto

What does gusto mean?
Gusto means enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
What is gusto in Tamil?
Gusto in Tamil is உற்சாகம், மகிழ்ச்சி, புது தெம்பு. See Gusto meaning in Tamil.
How do you use gusto in a sentence?
And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.
What part of speech is gusto?
Gusto is a noun.
How do you pronounce gusto?
Gusto is pronounced /ˈɡʌstəʊ/ (UK).

Words near gusto in the dictionary

  1. Gustins
  2. gustless
  3. gustnado
  4. gustnadoes
  5. gustnados
  6. gusto
  7. gustofacial
  8. gustometer
  9. gustometers
  10. Guston
  11. gustoso

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gusto (page history and authors); gusto (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gusto (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gusto (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gusto (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gusto (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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