- nauseating
- adjective Date: 1645 causing nausea or especially disgust Usage: see nauseous • nauseatingly adverb
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nauseating — index loathsome, obnoxious, offensive (offending), repugnant (exciting aversion), repulsive, unsavory Burton s Legal Thesaurus … Law dictionary
nauseating — [adj] nauseous abhorrent, detestable, disgusting, distasteful, fulsome, loathsome, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening; concepts 314,529 … New thesaurus
nauseating — nauseated, nauseating, nauseous 1. In Britain nauseated and nauseating (as parts of the verb nauseate) occasionally mean respectively ‘affected by nausea’ and ‘causing nausea’ in the physical sense but more often mean ‘disgusted’ and (especially) … Modern English usage
nauseating — adj. 1) nauseating to 2) nauseating to + inf. (it was nauseating to watch them) * * * nauseating to nauseating to + inf. (it was nauseating to watch them) … Combinatory dictionary
nauseating — [[t]nɔ͟ːzieɪtɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) 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… … English dictionary
nauseating — nau|se|a|ting [ˈno:zieıtıŋ, si US ˈno:zi , ʃi ] adj 1.) making you feel that you are going to ↑vomit = ↑sickening ▪ the nauseating smell of rotting fish 2.) making you feel annoyed or offended = ↑disgusting ▪ his nauseating remarks… … Dictionary of contemporary English
nauseating — nau|se|at|ing [ nɔzi,eıtıŋ, nɔʃi,eıtıŋ ] adjective 1. ) used for emphasizing that you dislike something very much: DISGUSTING: Some of the TV ads are truly nauseating. 2. ) making you feel as if you are going to VOMIT: Molly found the thought of… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
nauseating — adjective 1 making you feel nausea: In summer the smell of the farmyard was nauseating. 2 making you feel angry: It s nauseating how the coach always picks his favorites. compare disgusting nauseatingly adverb … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
nauseating — UK [ˈnɔːzɪˌeɪtɪŋ] / UK [ˈnɔːsɪˌeɪtɪŋ] / US [ˈnɔʃɪˌeɪtɪŋ] / US [ˈnɔzɪˌeɪtɪŋ] adjective 1) making you feel as if you are going to vomit Molly found the thought of food nauseating. 2) used for emphasizing that you dislike something very much Some of … English dictionary
Nauseating — 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. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
nauseating — nauseatingly, adv. /naw zee ay ting, zhee , see , shee /, adj. 1. causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous. 2. such as to cause contempt, disgust, loathing, etc.: I had to listen to the whole nauseating story. [1635 45; NAUSEATE + ING2] Usage.… … Universalium
