sickening

Meaning

Verb

present participle and gerund of sicken

Adj

1. Causing sickness or disgust.
2. Amazing, fantastic.

Noun

The act of making somebody sick.

sicken

1. (transitive) To make ill.
2. (intransitive) To become ill.
3. (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
4. To lower the standing of.
5. (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
6. (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
7. (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

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Synonyms

nauseous

disgusting

nauseating

loathsome

noisome

loathly

weird

queasy

vile

offensive

repulsive

horrible

horrid

horrifying

icky

ill

🤢

intolerable

mawkish

nauseously

putrid

repelling

repugnant

revolting

shocking

sick

🤢

stinking

tedious

terrible

unbearable

yucky

soupy

wlatsome

skanky

abhorrent

loathful

abominable

appalling

bilious

cloying

creepy

detestable

dicey

disgustful

emetic

fulsome

Translations

nauseabundo

widerlich

nauséabond

écœurant

erkrankend

nauseabondo

nauseante

dégoûtant

répugnant

nauseante

disgustoso

nauseabund

écoeurant

révoltant

ekelhaft

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.