nauseating

«nauseating» in Mova's school dictionary: Making you feel sick, as if you might vomit — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (nauseating; more nauseating); verb form (present participle of nauseate: nauseate, nauseates, nauseated, nauseating)

meaning for a pupil

1) Making you feel sick, as if you might vomit. tree →

2) (informal) Very annoying or unpleasant, as in "nauseating showing-off". tree →

sense 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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nauseating» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.