| 单词 | nauseating |
| 释义 | nauseating (once / 11067 pages) adj Something nauseating makes you feel sick to your stomach. Your kitchen garbage can may be nauseating by the end of the week. A bad smell or taste can be nauseating, but so can a terrible feeling or a horrible situation. The prospect of speaking in front of a crowd could be nauseating to you, or reading about a natural disaster. The adjective nauseating comes from nausea, which is a sick sensation or a feeling that you're about to vomit. The root of both words is the Latin nauseare, "to feel seasick, to vomit, or to feel disgust." WORD FAMILYnauseating: nauseatingly, nauseatingness+/nausea: nauseate, nauseous/nauseate: nauseated, nauseates, nauseating/nauseous: nauseously USAGE EXAMPLESThe images of a black Dutch TV presenter's face super-imposed on the hanged bodies of victims of a lynching are too nauseating to look at. BBC(Nov 24, 2016) Even as pundits and reporters alike continue to parse through returns, the nauseating and nasty 2016 election is essentially over. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) The nauseating ones tend to treat VR cameras like regular movie cameras, with a lot of panning in response to a subject’s movements. Seattle Times(Nov 11, 2016) adj causing or able to cause nausea a nauseating smell Syn loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile unwholesome detrimental to physical or moral well-being |
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