Exciting disgust or loathing. (Now always with emotional implication.) In physical sense: Exciting nausea; offensive to the senses; noisome…

Apt to produce qualms; = qualmish, adj. 3.

literal. Of a thing: causing nausea. In later use: esp. offensive or unpleasant to taste or smell.

That causes nausea; that nauseates; repellent, extremely distasteful.

Somewhat nauseating or sickening.

Of a thing: apt to induce qualms. rare.

that induces (or is liable to induce) nausea; that causes revulsion or disgust; sickening, repellent.

Terrifying, extremely unpleasant or distressing; that causes nausea or severely upsets the stomach.

= sick-making adj. n. at sick, adj. n.compounds 2c.