nauseating

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

nauseating (comparative more nauseating, superlative most nauseating)

1. Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.

   Synonym: nauseous

   • 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, pages 57–58:

     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.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:

     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.

Translations

causing disgust, revulsion or loathing

• Catalan: nauseabund
• Esperanto: naŭza
• Finnish: ällöttävä (fi), kuvottava (fi), oksettava (fi)
• Galician: vomitivo
• German: ekelerregend (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ναυτιώδης (nautiṓdēs)

• Irish: múisciúil, samhnasach
• Portuguese: nauseante
• Russian: отвратительный (ru) (otvratitelʹnyj), проти́вный (ru) (protívnyj)
• Spanish: nauseabundo (es)

causing nausea

• Catalan: nauseabund
• Esperanto: naŭza
• Finnish: etova (fi), oksettava (fi)
• Galician: vomitivo
• Greek:

  Ancient: ναυτιώδης (nautiṓdēs)

• Irish: múisciúil, samhnasach
• Russian: тошнотворный (ru) (tošnotvornyj)
• Spanish: nauseabundo (es)
• Ukrainian: нудо́тний (uk) (nudótnyj)

See also

• nauseated

Verb

nauseating

1. present participle and gerund of nauseate