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Definition: Nauseating |
NauseatingAdjective1. Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nauseating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: NauseatingSynonyms: loathsome (adj), nauseous (adj), noisome (adj), offensive (adj), sickening (adj), vile (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nauseating |
| English words defined with "nauseating": loathsome ♦ Nauseation, nauseous, noisome ♦ offensive ♦ sickening ♦ vile. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nauseating": Purple Book. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Scratchy violins, screechy piccolos, nauseating trumpets, et cetera, et cetera? (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.; writing credit: Dr. Seuss;) That's the most nauseating proposition I ever had. (A Day at the Races; writing credit: Robert Pirosh; George Seaton) | |
Lyrics | That nauseating song ("Achy Breaky Song"; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Nauseating" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.88% of the time. "Nauseating" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 55.88% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 41.18% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "nauseating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقرف (detestable, disgusting, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, repulsive, sickening), مغث (brackish, disgusting, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, queasy, sickening, sickly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 令人恶心 (Nauseous). (various references) | |
Finnish | tympäisevä (disgusting, sickening), ellottava (sickening), ellottaa (sickening). (various references) | |
French | nauséeux. (various references) | |
German | widerlich (abhorrently, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, lousy, lurid, nasty, nauseatingly, nauseous, noisome, noisomely, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, rancid, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinkingly, ugly, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, yukky), verabscheuend (abhoring, abhorring, abominating, detesting, loathing), grässlich (abominable, abominably, atrocious, awful, damnable, damnably, dire, direful, dreadful, excruciating, excruciatingly, ghastly, grisly, heinous, hideous, horrible, horribly, horrid, horridly, infernal, miserable, miserably, monstrous, putrid, terrible, terribly), ekelhaft (abominable, disgusting, foul, fulsome, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, nauseously, odious, putrid, repugnant, revolting, sickening, ugly, vile), ekelerregend (disgusting, loathsome, nauseous, obscene, obscenely, revolting, sickening, sickeningly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utálatos (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, detestable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, execrable, ghastly, groaty, grotty, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrible, loathful, loathsome, monstrous, nasty, obnoxious, odious, poisonous, rank), undorító (abominable, carrion, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, fulsome, groaty, grotty, grovelling, hideous, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nauseous, pooping, queasy, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, smarmy, ugly), undok (abominable, execrable, hideous, nasty, nauseous, odious), émelygést keltő (nauseous), émelygős (luscious, nauseous, squeamish). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cengis (had odor, loathsome). (various references) | |
Italian | nauseante (disgusting, fulsome, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, nauseous, nauseously), nauseabondo (nauseas, queasy, sickening, sickly), stucchevole (sickening, sickly). (various references) | |
Manx | jiooldagh (bilious, dissident, nauseous, negative, revolting, sickly, squeamish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auseatingnay.(various references) | |
Romanian | scabros (risky, scabrous). (various references) | |
Russian | вызывать тошноту/ тошнотворный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), koji izaziva gađenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | nauseabundo (disgusting, nauseous, nauseously, sickening, sickly), repugnante (abominable, disgusting, gruesome, loathful, loathsome, nasty, offensive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, ugly, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Swedish | kväljande (mawkish, queasily, queasy, sickening, sickly). (various references) | |
Thai | น่าขยะแขยง (macabre, nauseated). (various references) | |
Ukranian | огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, routine, sickish, sickly, treacly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nauseating": nauseatingly. (additional references) | |
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"Nauseating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nausating, nauseation, Neustettin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nauseating" (pronounced nô"zhēā'ting) |
| 5 | -ē ā' t i ng | abbreviating, affiliating, alleviating, appreciating, appropriating, associating, delineating, depreciating, differentiating, enunciating, excoriating, excruciating, humiliating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, mediating, misappropriating, negotiating, obviating, officiating, permeating, radiating, recreating, renegotiating, repatriating, repudiating, retaliating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | abdicating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, allocating, alternating, anticipating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, meditating, migrating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, navigating, necessitating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, operating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renovating, replicating, resonating, resuscitating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abutting, accenting, accepting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, annotating, appointing, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-n-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: unseating. | |
-2 letters: antigens, gentians, guanines, nauseant, sanguine, sauteing, tannages, tunnages, unitages. | |
-3 letters: against, agnates, anginas, anguine, annates, anteing, antigen, antigun, antings, antisag, augites, aunties, easting, eatings, ensuing, entasia, gannets, gateaus, gentian, guanase, guanine, guanins, guineas, gunites, gunnies, iguanas, inanest, ingates, ingesta, nesting, seating, sinuate, stanine, staning, taenias, tannage, teasing, tensing, tunings, tunnage, tunnies, unitage. | |
-4 letters: agates, ageist, agents, agnate, anenst, angina, ansate, anting, augite, auntie, easing, eating, ennuis, ensign, gainst, gannet, gateau, genius, giants, guanin, guinea, gunite, iguana, inanes, ingate, ingest, innate, insane, nausea, saning, satang, sating, sennit, sienna, signet, suntan, taenia, taigas, teguas, tenias, tennis, tenuis, tineas, tinges, tisane, tuning, unites, unseat, unsent, unties. | |
-5 letters: aegis, again, agate, agent, agist, agues, anent, angas, angst, anise, annas, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antis, aunts, ennui, entia, etnas, etuis, gains, gaits, gates, gaunt, gents, genua, genus, getas, giant, gnats, guans, guest, guise, inane, inset, naans, nanas, nates, neats, negus, neist, nines, nites, saiga, saint, sanga, satin, sauna, saute, segni, sengi, senna, senti, singe, stage, staig, stain, stane, stang, stein, sting, stung, suing, suint, suite, sunna, taiga, tains, tangs, tegua, tenia, tinea, tines, tinge, tings, tunas, tunes, tungs, unais, unite, units, unset, untie, usage, using, usnea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-n-n-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: exsanguinate, nauseatingly. | |
+3 letters: augmentations, encapsulating, exsanguinated, exsanguinates. | |
+4 letters: argumentations, degranulations, exsanguinating, exsanguination, septuagenarian, superannuating. | |
+5 letters: exsanguinations, septuagenarians. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 75 73 65 61 74 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- ..- ... . .- - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a u s e a t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0075 0073 0065 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48678785716786758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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