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- Dictionarysickening/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust: "a sickening stench of blood"
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SICKENING definition: 1. extremely unpleasant and causing you to feel shock and anger: 2. annoying: 3. extremely…. Learn more.
: causing sickness or disgust. a sickening odor. a sickening display. sickeningly. ˈsi-kə-niŋ-lē. ˈsik-niŋ- adverb. Synonyms. abhorrent. abominable. appalling. awful. disgusting. distasteful. dreadful. evil. foul. fulsome. gross. hideous.
You describe something as sickening when it gives you feelings of horror or disgust, or makes you feel sick in your stomach.
Sickening definition: causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing. See examples of SICKENING used in a sentence.
[usually before noun] making you afraid that somebody has been badly hurt or that something has been broken. Her head hit the ground with a sickening thud. The truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch. (informal) making you feel jealous or annoyed because you wish you had something that somebody else has.
Define sickening. sickening synonyms, sickening pronunciation, sickening translation, English dictionary definition of sickening. adj. 1. Revolting or disgusting; loathsome: a sickening stench. 2. Causing sickness. sick′en·ing·ly adv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English...
SICKEN definition: 1. to become ill: 2. to cause someone to feel unpleasant emotions, especially anger and shock: 3…. Learn more.
Definitions of sickening. adjective. causing or able to cause nausea. “a sickening stench”. synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile. unwholesome. detrimental to physical or moral well-being.
Sickening Sentence Examples. A sickening feeling starts to grow from the pit of my stomach. She saw smoke moving across the sky a moment before the helicopter rolled and began its sickening maneuvers again. Her surroundings blurred into light and shadows, and she felt the sickening sense of falling off the cliff again.
Synonyms for SICKENING: disgusting, horrible, shocking, awful, ugly, hideous, obscene, offensive; Antonyms of SICKENING: innocuous, acceptable, sweet, desirable, delightful, inoffensive, pleasant, attractive.
