'Sickening' definitions:
Definition of 'sickening'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Sickening'
From: GCIDE
- Sicken \Sick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]
- 1. To make sick; to disease. [1913 Webster]
- Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sickening'
From: GCIDE
- Sickening \Sick"en*ing\, a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- {Sick"en*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sickening'
From: 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