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View synonyms for nauseating

nauseating

[ naw-zee-ey-ting, -zhee-, -see-, -shee- ]

adjective

  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.



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Confusables Note

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Other Words From

  • nause·ating·ly adverb
  • un·nause·ating adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nauseating1

First recorded in 1635–45; nauseat(e) + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

A basic fact will remain: The bias, whatever its components, is nauseating.

There was, instead, a nauseating excursion into base and sad fantasies.

Historically, migraines were labeled a hysterical female condition, characterized by throbbing, one-sided, nauseating pain.

However nauseating in retrospect, millions shared their views.

He was trapped because things you had to say to defend the indefensible are nauseating and atrocious things.

At last, the sunken eyelids and the inability to see my flashlight and respond told me the nauseating truth.

This substance had a strong and persistent odor, so sweet as to be almost nauseating.

The swinging of the mast was nauseating him in his excited condition, and he felt his strength gradually ebbing.

He was blinded by light and deafened by sound and his nostrils were filled with the nauseating fetor of jungle and decay.

It was a nauseating rle to play; but he was bent upon making a last appeal to her before they returned to town on the morrow.

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