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Definition: Sickening |
SickeningAdjective1. 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 "sickening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A scum that forms on the surface of mercury that retards amalgamating, caused by grease, sulfides, arsenides, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SickeningSynonyms: loathsome (adj), nauseating (adj), nauseous (adj), noisome (adj), offensive (adj), vile (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Phrase: the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking within one; "a plague of sighing and grief"; " thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred". |
Hope | At spes non fracta; ego spem prietio non emo; un Dieu est ma fiance; " hope! thou nurse of young desire "; in hoc signo spes mea; in hoc signo vinces; la speranza e il pan de miseri; l'esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille; " the mighty hopes that make us men"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred ". |
Pain | Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous. |
Unsavoriness | Offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening. Verb: nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sickening |
| English words defined with "sickening": ad nauseam ♦ holier-than-thou ♦ loathsome ♦ nauseating, nauseous, noisome ♦ offensive ♦ pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical ♦ sanctimonious, self-righteous ♦ vile. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sickening": Custard ♦ Head ♦ Yellow Bird. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a sickening smile, for the corners of her mouth were stained with blood, and a dark cavity revealed itself there |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sickening" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sickening" is used about 232 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) | 100% | 232 | 19,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sickening": be sickening for ♦ sickening fear ♦ sickening stench. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sickening | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sickening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pështirë (abhorrent, mawkish, repugnant, repulsive, yucky), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Arabic | كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), مقزز للنفس, مقرف (detestable, disgusting, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, repulsive), مغث (brackish, disgusting, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, queasy, sickly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 厌恶 (Disinclination, indispose, indisposed, Indisposing, loathe, Loathed, loathing, repulsion, sicken, Sickened). (various references) | |
Czech | odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile). (various references) | |
Finnish | tympäisevä (disgusting, nauseating), iljettävä (disgusting, loathsome, nauseous, repulsive), ellottava (nauseating), ellottaa (nauseating). (various references) | |
French | répugnant, nauséeux, exaspérant, dégoûtant, blasant, éc"urant (sickly). (various references) | |
German | zum kotzen, widerlich (abhorrently, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, lousy, lurid, nasty, nauseating, nauseatingly, nauseous, noisome, noisomely, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, rancid, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, stinkingly, ugly, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, yukky), unerträglich (insufferable, insufferably, insupportable, insupportably, intolerable, intolerably, maddening, maddeningly, sickeningly, unbearable, unbearably, unendurable, unendurably), erschütternd (convulsing, distressing, harrowing, overwhelming, shaking, shattering, shocking), erkrankend (falling ill), entsetzlich (abysmal, abysmally, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, dire, dreadful, excruciating, frightful, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrendously, horrible, horribly, horrid, horridly, horrific, horrifying, outrageous, racking, shocking, shockingly, terrible, unspeakable), ekelhaft (abominable, disgusting, foul, fulsome, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nauseously, odious, putrid, repugnant, revolting, ugly, vile), ekelerregend (disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, obscene, obscenely, revolting, sickeningly). (various references) | |
Greek | αηδήσ (disgusting, fulsome, loathful, loathly, loathsome, mawkish, nauseous, shocking). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבחיל (nasty, nauseous, odious, queasy, revolting, sickly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszataszító (abominable, appalling, distasteful, forbidding, foul, galoot, hideous, obnoxious, rank, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, repulsiveness, sleaze). (various references) | |
Italian | stucchevole (nauseating, sickly), nauseabondo (nauseas, nauseating, queasy, sickly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | チョコレート色 (apparent and grievous error, Chile, chocolate brown, chop, chopper, flickering, very sickening, vest, waistcoat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チョ カ (very sickening). (various references) | |
Korean | 구역질남. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickeningsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | revoltante (outrageous, revolting, shocking), repugnante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, brackish, carrion, disgusting, forbidding, grievous, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, nauseous, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unsavory, unsavoury), que causa náuseas, enjoativo (rammish), chocante (abrupt, amazing, filthy, harsh, jarring, knockdown, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, revolting, shocking, startling). (various references) | |
Romanian | scârbos (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, bloody, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, fulsome, ghastly, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, repugnant, repulsive, unpleasant, verminous, vile), revoltãtor (gruesome, outrageously, revolting, shocking, shockingly), greţos (disgusting, gross, nauseous, queasy, sickly, unsavory, unsavoury), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, obscene, odious, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), întristãtor (melancholy, sad, saddening, sorry, woeful). (various references) | |
Russian | чахлый (atrophied, stunted), отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, damned, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, loathsome, morbid, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), претить отвратительный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), kužan (pestilent, plaguesome), gnusan (abominable, damnable, detestable, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nasty, noisome). (various references) | |
Spanish | nauseabundo (disgusting, nauseating, nauseous, nauseously, sickly), deprimente (blue, depressing, dismal). (various references) | |
Swedish | kväljande (mawkish, nauseating, queasily, queasy, sickly), irriterande (annoying, excruciating, irksome, irritant, irritants, irritating, irritative, maddening, nettlesome, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey, plaguy, vexatious, worrisome). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งทำให้ป่วย. (various references) | |
Turkish | tiksindirici (abominable, cloying, detestable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, mawkish, odious, putrid, qualmish, squirmy), mide bulandırıcı (fulsome, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, sick, sickly), korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, terrible, terrific, terrifying), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), bıktırıcı (disgusting, fulsome, irksome, prosy, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, wearing, wearisome, weary). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бридкий (abominable, antipathetic, antipathetical, bad, damned, hideous, loathful, nasty, noisome, offensive). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m thất vọng (cold, depressing, disappointing), l m lợm giọng, kinh tởm (abominable, abominate, carrion), ghê tởm l m chán nản. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sickening": sickeningly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sickening" (pronounced si"kuning or si"kning) |
| 6 | -i" k u n i ng | quickening, thickening. |
| 5 | -k u n i ng | awakening, beckoning, blackening, darkening, likening, reawakening, reckoning, slackening, weakening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, auctioning, auditioning, bargaining, battening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, rationing, reasoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, siphoning, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-i-k-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: neckings, skeining, snicking. | |
-2 letters: censing, insigne, kinesic, necking, nicking, seining, sicking, sinking. | |
-3 letters: ensign, icings, incise, inking, kinins, sicken, sickie, skiing. | |
-4 letters: cines, eking, gecks, genic, genii, ginks, icing, kines, kings, kinin, necks, nicks, nines, nisei, segni, sengi, since, singe, skein, sneck, snick. | |
-5 letters: cigs, cine, egis, engs, geck, gens, gien, gies, gink, gins, ices. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-i-k-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: snickering. | |
+2 letters: kinescoping, sickeningly, thickenings. | |
+3 letters: linebackings, misreckoning. | |
+5 letters: cabinetmakings, countersinking, fingerpickings. | |
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