nauseating

adjective

nau·se·at·ing ˈnȯ-zhē-ˌā-tiŋ

-shē-,

-zē-,

-sē-

Synonyms of nauseating next

: causing nausea or especially disgust

nauseatingly adverb

Nauseous vs. Nauseated: Usage Guide

Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only to mean "causing nausea" and that its later "affected with nausea" meaning is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous to mean "causing nausea or disgust" is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous when referring to being affected with nausea.

Examples of nauseating in a Sentence

the nauseating smell of rotting garbage The way the animals were treated was nauseating. It was nauseating to see the two of them act like lovesick teenagers.

Recent Examples on the Web

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This includes a front seating space capable of switching between a typical forward-facing position or a more sociable, but also potentially more nauseating, rearward-facing position that allows front and rear passengers to face one another. —

Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022 The grisly encounter that sets the plot in motion is mercifully less nauseating than the novel; one major character is added; and one villain, securely incarcerated in the book, instead remains at large. —

Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022 And sometimes, the cooking process looks pretty nauseating, but the finished product turns out to look so normal that commenters suspect the video was cut and edited. —

Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 2 June 2021 With a 25 percent discount, the price is also slightly less nauseating. —

Adrienne So, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021 See all Example Sentences for nauseating