What is another word for sickening?
Synonyms for sickening
ˈsɪk ə nɪŋsick·en·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vileadjective
causing or able to cause nausea
"a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Synonyms:
noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, unsavory, ugly, foul, repellent, dysphemistic, slimy, unsavoury, distasteful, offensive, anxious, sick, ill-scented, foetid, vile, despicable, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, smelly, repelling, worthless, unquiet, foul-smelling, loathsome, sickish, nauseated, nervous, yucky, wicked, uneasy, skanky, funky, wretched, loathly, violative, unworthy, queasy, repellantAntonyms:
wholesome
Dictionary of English Synonymes
sickeningadjective
Synonyms:
nauseating, nauseous, sickish, pallingsickeningadjective
Synonyms:
disgusting, distasteful, repulsive, revolting, foul, loathsome, offensive
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sickeningadjective
Synonyms:
nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sickening":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4358 | sick | |
#6274 | offensive | |
#7366 | nervous | |
#7689 | ugly | |
#8459 | wicked | |
#9379 | funky | |
#9718 | foul | |
#13864 | anxious | |
#20769 | worthless | |
#21931 | disgusting | |
#27379 | vile | |
#27699 | uneasy | |
#28746 | repellent | |
#30005 | smelly | |
#30945 | wretched | |
#38945 | unworthy | |
#43152 | repulsive | |
#45047 | stinking | |
#47706 | despicable | |
#48458 | sickening | |
#48820 | slimy | |
#55326 | repugnant | |
#56411 | distasteful | |
#58305 | revolting | |
#62396 | repellant | |
#65966 | loathsome | |
#75889 | unsavory | |
#77749 | yucky | |
#80214 | repelling | |
#80551 | violative | |
#81217 | nauseous | |
#83921 | skanky | |
#86575 | queasy | |
#94915 | nauseating | |
#113981 | nauseated | |
#116654 | fetid | |
#116743 | unquiet | |
#143949 | unsavoury | |
#227568 | noisome |
How to use sickening in a sentence?
No one had spoken to them or apologized on behalf of the legal system for the despicable way Twiggs was treated until I called, this was sickening to me, so I did it for them.
Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke:
I want to dump the bucket. I'd like to have everybody see everything that went on because it's sickening to me what I saw, but they were all dealt with accordingly.
It also flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that children being raised by same-sex parents are just as healthy and well-adjusted as those with different-sex parents. At a time when so many children in foster care need loving homes, it is sickening to think that a child would be taken from caring parents who planned to adopt.
I had difficulty breathing, and a sickening feeling grew in my belly -- about those killed, about what this would mean for our country and the world.
As the mother of daughters, the charges certainly are sickening. As the Speaker noted there is an ethics investigation underway, there are criminal investigations underway, and I'm not going to comment further on that publicly right now.
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