gusto – English noun declension

English noun forms of gusto

Noun: gusto
Singulargusto

Sample Sentences

  • He sang with more gusto than talent.
  • Sing, Johnny One-Note / Sing out with gusto / And just overwhelm all the crowd [1937, Rodgers and Hart, “Johnny One Note”:]
  • 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 on 01 Feb 2023:]
  • Germany regeared for the second half: same shape, more control. Mexico had lost some of their vim. 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 Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:]
  • Why should you force wine upon us? We are not all of your gusto. [1672, William Wycherley, Love in Wood:]
  • The Designs..are of very mean Gusto. [1712, John James (architect), Theory & Practice of Gardening:]
  • 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:]
  • Melons of the richest gusto abound everywhere. [1836, Mary Austin Holley, History of Texas:]

Etymology

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