1. causing nausea or a feeling of sickness
2. extremely unpleasant or offensive
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The nauseating smell from the garbage made her cover her nose.
• He felt nauseating motion sickness during the boat ride.
• The politician’s nauseating lies angered the voters.
• The nauseating sight of blood made him dizzy.
• She found his arrogant behavior absolutely nauseating.
• The nauseating fumes from the factory polluted the air.