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# nauseating

adjective (nauseating; more nauseating); verb form (present participle of nauseate: nauseate, nauseates, nauseated, nauseating)

«nauseating» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Making you feel sick, as if you might vomit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#m1)
2. (informal) Very annoying or unpleasant, as in "nauseating showing-off". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used about smells, sights, motion (a nauseating boat trip) and in health; in everyday talk and stories it is used for something so unpleasant it makes you feel sick, even if not really. Phrases: "a nauseating smell".

### Examples

- The smell from the bin was nauseating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x1)
- The rollercoaster was so fast it was nauseating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x2)
- Reading in the car can be nauseating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x3)
- His bragging was nauseating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x4)
- The rotten eggs gave off a nauseating stink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x5)
- Some medicines have nauseating side effects. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x6)
- The boat rocked in a nauseating way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/#x7)

### Note

From "nausea" (feeling sick). Spelling: nau-se-at-ing. "Nauseous" means feeling sick ("I feel nauseous") in everyday use.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «nauseating» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nauseating/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«nauseating» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nauseating.html) on Mova free.