Need another word that means the same as “sickening”? Find 27 synonyms and 30 related words for “sickening” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Sickening” are: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile, repulsive, revolting, disgusting, repellent, repugnant, appalling, abominable, hideous, horrible, awful, dreadful, terrible, obnoxious, nasty, foul, objectionable, off-putting, distasteful, disagreeable, uninviting
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sickening” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| abominable | Unequivocally detestable- Edmund Burke. What an abominable mess. |
| appalling | Very bad; awful. The cat suffered appalling injuries during the attack. |
| awful | (of a person) very unwell or troubled. I ve made an awful fool of myself. |
| disagreeable | Unfriendly and bad-tempered. Aspects of his work are disagreeable to him. |
| disgusting | Arousing revulsion or strong indignation. He had the most disgusting rotten teeth. |
| distasteful | Causing dislike or aversion; disagreeable or unpleasant. He found such cynicism distasteful. |
| dreadful | Extremely disagreeable. Don t go out the weather is dreadful. |
| foul | Of a baseball not hit between the foul lines. Foul oaths. |
| hideous | Extremely unpleasant. The whole hideous story. |
| horrible | Provoking horror- Winston Churchill. War is beyond all words horrible. |
| loathsome | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. A loathsome disease. |
| nasty | (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet. A nasty problem. |
| nauseating | Causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting. The stench was nauseating. |
| nauseous | Causing or able to cause nausea. The smell was nauseous. |
| noisome | Offensively malodorous. A noisome concoction of which cheap port is the basis. |
| objectionable | Liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to. A vulgar and objectionable person. |
| obnoxious | Extremely unpleasant. He found her son somewhat obnoxious. |
| off-putting | Tending to repel- Elizabeth Hess. |
| offensive | Morally offensive. Offensive odors. |
| queasy | Nauseous; feeling sick. The queasy swell of the boat. |
| repellent | Serving or tending to repel. A water repellent fabric. |
| repugnant | Extremely distasteful; unacceptable. Cannibalism seems repugnant to us. |
| repulsive | Relating to repulsion between physical objects. A repulsive smell. |
| revolting | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. Revolting food. |
| terrible | Causing fear or dread or terror. A terrible crime. |
| uninviting | Neither attractive nor tempting. The house was dark and uninviting. |
| vile | Morally reprehensible. He has a vile temper. |
| detestable | Unequivocally detestable. I found the film s violence detestable. |
| disgusting | Arousing revulsion or strong indignation. He had the most disgusting rotten teeth. |
| displeasing | Causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities. It was not entirely displeasing to be the centre of such a drama. |
| fetid | Smelling extremely unpleasant. The fetid water of the marsh. |
| foul | Make foul or dirty pollute. Will have to work towards solutions to prevent trucks from fouling railroad tracks. |
| hate | Have a strong aversion to (something. I hate to bother you. |
| hateful | Evoking or deserving hatred- Joseph Priestly. That hateful arrogant woman. |
| horrifying | Causing horror; extremely shocking. An alarming even horrifying picture. |
| loathsome | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. This loathsome little swine. |
| nausea | The state that precedes vomiting. The stories will launch a wave of public nausea and outrage. |
| nauseating | Causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting. The stench was nauseating. |
| nauseous | Affected with nausea; feeling inclined to vomit. Nauseous offal. |
| noisome | Having an extremely offensive smell. Noisome vapours from the smouldering waste. |
| noxious | Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant. Noxious ideas. |
| offensive | Morally offensive. Offensive odors. |
| queasy | Inducing a feeling of nausea. The queasy swell of the boat. |
| repellent | Incapable of absorbing or mixing with. Water repellent nylon. |
| repelling | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. |
| repugnant | In conflict or incompatible with. A by law must not be repugnant to the general law of the country. |
| repulsive | Offensive to the mind. A repulsive force. |
| revulsion | A sense of disgust and loathing. News of the attack will be met with sorrow and revulsion. |
| stinking | Very bad. A stinking cold. |
| unhealthy | Not conducive to good health. An unhealthy diet of fast foods. |
| unsightly | Unpleasant to look at. Unsightly billboards. |
| unwholesome | Detrimental to physical or moral well-being. The use of the living room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding. |
| vile | Morally reprehensible. Vile smells. |
| wicked | Morally bad in principle or practice. A wicked and unscrupulous politician. |
| worse | Changed for the worse in health or fitness. The small department was already stretched to the limit but worse was to follow. |
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