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nauseating definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1645 causing nausea or especially disgust Usage: see nauseous • nauseatingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nauseate Nau"se*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nauseated; p. pr. & vb. n. Nauseating.] [L. nauseare, nauseatum, fr. nausea. See Nausea.] To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone's attitude or their behaviour as nauseating, you mean that you find it extremely unpleasant and feel disgusted by it. The judge described the offences as nauseating and unspeakable... For them to attack the Liberals for racism is nauseating hypocrisy. = sickening ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crappy, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gloppy, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mucky, nasty, nauseant, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, ordurous, overripe, poisonous, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, wormy, yecchy, yucky