Word Meanings - SICKENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SICKENING)

• Fulsome
• Excessive
• gross
• loathsome
• nauseous
• sickening
• fawning
• offensive

Related words: (words related to SICKENING)

• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• OFFENSIVE
  1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
• NAUSEOUS
  Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• SICKENING
  Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.
• SICKEN
  1. To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior. 2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. 3. To impair; to weaken. Shak.
• GROSSULAR
  Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See
• GROSS-HEADED
  Thick-skulled; stupid.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• GROSS
  grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak. A gross body of horse under
• GROSSIFICATION
  The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
• GROSSBEAK
  See GROSBEAK
• FULSOME
  1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding. 2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess
• FAWNER
  One who fawns; a sycophant.
• GROSSNESS
  The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness. Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of delicacy. Dr. T. Dwight.
• LOATHSOME
  Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
• FAWN
  A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck. 2. The young of an animal; a whelp. . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland. 3. A fawn color.
• GROSSULIN
  A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries and other fruits.
• GROSSLY
  In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
• GROSSULARIA
  See GROSSULAR
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• INOFFENSIVE
  1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.
• INGROSS
  See ENGROSS
• ENGROSS
  n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir, engroissier, to make 1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak. 2. To amass.
• ENGROSSER
  1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters. 2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.