nauseating
adjective (nauseating; more nauseating); verb form (present participle of nauseate: nauseate, nauseates, nauseated, nauseating)
Everyday
- Making you feel sick, as if you might vomit. tree →
- (informal) Very annoying or unpleasant, as in "nauseating showing-off". tree →
In the lessons
Used about smells, sights, motion (a nauseating boat trip) and in health; in everyday talk and stories it is used for something so unpleasant it makes you feel sick, even if not really. Phrases: "a nauseating smell".
Examples
- The smell from the bin was nauseating. tree →
- The rollercoaster was so fast it was nauseating. tree →
- Reading in the car can be nauseating. tree →
- His bragging was nauseating. tree →
- The rotten eggs gave off a nauseating stink. tree →
- Some medicines have nauseating side effects. tree →
- The boat rocked in a nauseating way. tree →
Note
From "nausea" (feeling sick). Spelling: nau-se-at-ing. "Nauseous" means feeling sick ("I feel nauseous") in everyday use.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «nauseating» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «nauseating» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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