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Definition of Nauseating
1. Adjective. Causing or able to cause nausea. "A sickening stench"
Similar to: Unwholesome
Derivative terms: Loathsomeness, Nauseatingness, Nausea, Noisomeness, Offend, Offensiveness, Sickeningness, Vileness
Definition of Nauseating
1. Adjective. causing disgust, revulsion or loathing ¹
2. Adjective. causing nausea ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nauseating
1. nauseate [v] - See also: nauseate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nauseating
Literary usage of Nauseating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Horatio Charles Wood (1916)
"... those which tend towards relaxation of the bronchial blood-vessels and increase
of secretion—the so-called sedative or nauseating expectorants—and those ..."
2. An Analytical compendium of the various branches of medical science by John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith (1866)
"The nauseating class are alone indicated in cases of inflammatory or febrile ...
nauseating EXPECTORANTS. The emetics, generally, prove expectorant, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"In the second book, which contains passages as virulent and as nauseating as
anything of Swift, the goddess institutes a series of games in honor of the new ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The cause of the decline seems to be that nauseating itself is taking over both
of these uses. Here is the literal sense: . . . a scent, either natural or ..."
5. The Medical student's vade mecum by George Mendenhall (1871)
"Into nauseating, refrigerant, d alterative ... the lancet or other depleting
remedies should be premised. nauseating ... What are some of the nauseating ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1886)
"Is there not, in the relations of the profession of medicine to the public, a
necessity which is repugnant and nauseating to a really modest man ? ..."
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