SICKENING - 7 definitions found
sickening 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 Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) sickening adjective Date: 1789 causing sickness or disgust <a sickening odor> <a sickening display> • sickeningly adverb Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary sickening You describe something as sickening when it gives you feelings of horror or disgust, or makes you feel sick in your stomach. This was a sickening attack on a pregnant and defenceless woman... ADJ Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.] 1. To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. --Prior. 2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. 3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Sickening \Sick"en*ing\, a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms sickening a. 1. Nauseating, nauseous, sickish, palling. 2. Disgusting, distasteful, repulsive, revolting, foul, loathsome, offensive. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 60 Moby Thesaurus words for "sickening": abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky |
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