nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sickening
present participle of sicken
sickening (comparative more sickening, superlative most sickening)
Causing sickness or disgust.
(LGBT slang) Amazing, fantastic.
sickening (plural sickenings)
The act of making somebody sick.
Source: Wiktionary
Sick"en*ing, a.
Definition: Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.
– Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.
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.
Sick"en, v. i.
1. To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.
2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak.
3. To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith.
4. To become weak; to decay; to languish. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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