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sickening
adjective
1 sickening
Causing or able to cause nausea:
— A sickening stench.
synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile.
Roget 830:
causing pain,
hurting
etc.
v.;
hurtful
etc.
(bad)
649;
painful;
dolorific†,
dolorous;
unpleasant;
unpleasing,
displeasing;
disagreeable,
unpalatable,
bitter,
distasteful;
uninviting;
unwelcome;
undesirable,
undesired;
obnoxious;
unacceptable,
unpopular,
thankless.
unsatisfactory,
untoward,
unlucky,
uncomfortable.
distressing;
afflicting,
afflictive;
joyless,
cheerless,
comfortless;
dismal,
disheartening;
depressing,
depressive;
dreary,
melancholy,
grievous,
piteous;
woeful,
rueful,
mournful,
deplorable,
pitiable,
lamentable;
sad,
affecting,
touching,
pathetic.
irritating,
provoking,
stinging,
annoying,
aggravating,
mortifying,
galling;
unaccommodating,
invidious,
vexatious;
troublesome,
tiresome,
irksome,
wearisome;
plaguing,
plaguy†;
awkward.
importunate;
teasing,
pestering,
bothering,
harassing,
worrying,
tormenting,
carking.
intolerable,
insufferable,
insupportable;
unbearable,
unendurable;
past bearing;
not to be borne,
not to be endured;
more than flesh and blood can bear;
enough to drive one mad,
enough to provoke a saint,
enough to make a parson swear,
enough to gag a maggot.
shocking,
terrific,
grim,
appalling,
crushing;
dreadful,
fearful,
frightful;
thrilling,
tremendous,
dire;
heart-breaking,
heart-rending,
heart-wounding,
heart-corroding,
heart-sickening;
harrowing,
rending.
odious,
hateful,
execrable,
repulsive,
repellent,
abhorrent;
horrid,
horrible,
horrific,
horrifying;
offensive.
nauseous,
nauseating;
disgusting,
sickening,
revolting;
nasty;
loathsome,
loathful†;
fulsome;
vile
etc.
(bad)
649;
hideous
etc.
846.
sharp,
acute,
sore,
severe,
grave,
hard,
harsh,
cruel,
biting,
caustic;
cutting,
corroding,
consuming,
racking,
excruciating,
searching,
grinding,
grating,
agonizing;
envenomed;
catheretic†,
pyrotic [Med.].
ruinous,
disastrous,
calamitous,
tragical;
desolating,
withering;
burdensome,
onerous,
oppressive;
cumbrous,
cumbersome.
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Roget 395:
unsavory,
unpalatable,
unsweetened,
unsweet†;
ill-flavored;
bitter,
bitter as gall;
acrid,
acrimonious;
rough.
offensive,
repulsive,
nasty;
sickening
etc.
v.;
nauseous;
loathsome,
fulsome;
unpleasant
etc.
830.
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Moby thesaurus: abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky ... show more.
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