Word · Frequency #21654
nauseating
令人作呕的；使人恶心的；令人厌恶的
causing nausea or disgust; sickening
- 1.
Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.
令人恶心的；使人作呕的；令人厌恶的
- 2.
causing or able to cause nausea
引起或能够引起恶心
令人恶心的；使人作呕的；令人厌恶的；引起或能够引起恶心；作呕的；恶心的；厌恶的
In use
The smell of the garbage on the hot street was nauseating.
The medicine had a nauseating taste, so she drank some juice afterward.
He finds the constant flattery at work nauseating.
a nauseating smell
be + nauseating
The smell was nauseating.
那气味令人作呕。
find sth + nauseating
find + 宾语 + nauseating 表示“觉得……令人厌恶”。
I find the idea of eating raw meat nauseating.
我觉得吃生肉的想法令人恶心。
a nauseating + noun
nauseating 常作定语修饰气味、景象等名词。
Connections
Collocations
- nauseating smell
- 令人作呕的气味
- A nauseating smell came from the kitchen.一股令人作呕的气味从厨房传来。
- nauseating stench
- 令人恶心的恶臭
- The nauseating stench of rotting fish filled the room.腐烂的鱼发出的令人恶心的恶臭弥漫了整个房间。
- nauseating sight
- 令人作呕的景象
- The nauseating sight of the accident made her turn away.事故那令人作呕的景象使她转过头去。
- nauseating taste
- 令人恶心的味道
- The medicine left a nauseating taste in his mouth.那药在他嘴里留下了令人恶心的味道。
- nauseating hypocrisy
- 令人厌恶的虚伪
- His nauseating hypocrisy disgusted everyone at the meeting.他令人厌恶的虚伪让会议上的每个人都很反感。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 nauseating 联想成“令人作呕的气味直冲鼻子，胃里翻涌想吐”，记住它表示‘使人恶心的、令人厌恶的’。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：描述令人作呕的气味或味道、形容令人厌恶的行为或事件 nauseating 是中性形容词，通常用于形容气味、味道、行为或场面令人恶心或厌恶；口语和书面语中都比较常见，语气较为直接。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Genuine final-sound matches: fascinating, frustrating, irritating, and pulsating all contain the /eɪtɪŋ/ ending, matching the spelling -ating that appears at the end of nauseating. However, none of them is a full rhyme with nauseating, because nauseating has its main stress on the first syllable (/ˈnɔʒiˌeɪtɪŋ/). Beware of related-looking words with different sounds: nauseous (/ˈnɔːʃəs/) and nausea (/ˈnɔːziə/) do not end in /eɪtɪŋ/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.