📖 Definitions of "Nauseating"
adjective
- 1
Causing disgust, revulsion or loathing
- 2
Causing nausea
🔄 Synonyms of "Nauseating"
7 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| vilenoun | Morally low; base; despicable. |
| loathsome | Highly offensive; abominable, sickening. |
| offensivenoun | Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation. |
| noisome | (literary) Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious. |
| nauseous | Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting. |
| sickeningnoun | Causing sickness or disgust. |
| unwholesome | Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Nauseating"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| noisome | (literary) Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious. |
| unwholesome | Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful. |
| loathsome | Highly offensive; abominable, sickening. |
| sickening | Causing sickness or disgust. |
| vile | Morally low; base; despicable. |
| offensive | Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation. |
| nauseous | Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting. |
| disgusting | Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful. |
| repugnant | Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion. |
| odious | Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. |
| repulsive | Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting. |
| distasteful | (figuratively) Unpleasant. |
| sick | (less common in the UK and Ireland) In poor health; ill. |
| abhorrent | Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing. |
| nasty | Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person). |
| unsavoury | (British spelling) Alternative spelling of unsavory. [Not savory; without flavor.] |
| repellent | Repulsive, inspiring aversion. |
| revolting | repulsive, disgusting |
| revellent | (obsolete, medicine) Causing revulsion; revulsive. |
| foul | Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc. |
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