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nauseating

nauseating adjective: causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting. Also the present participle and gerund of nauseate.

Adjective

nauseating (comparative more nauseating, superlative most nauseating)

  1. Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.
    • But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC...
    • They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169
    Synonyms:
    nauseous

Also used as

nauseating is also the present participle and gerund of nauseate.

nauseating meaning in Persian

nauseating in Persian

causing disgust, revulsion or loathing
چندشناک čendešnāk

Synonyms of nauseating

Forms of nauseating

comparativemore nauseating
superlativemost nauseating

Words formed from nauseating

Questions about nauseating

What does nauseating mean?
Nauseating means causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.
What is nauseating in Persian?
Nauseating in Persian is چندشناک (čendešnāk). See Nauseating meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is nauseating?
Nauseating is an adjective.

Words near nauseating in the dictionary

  1. nauseas
  2. nauseate
  3. nauseated
  4. nauseates
  5. nauseatic
  6. nauseating
  7. nauseatingly
  8. nauseatingness
  9. nauseation
  10. nauseations
  11. nauseative

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