🇬🇧 Nauseating meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

"Nauseating" describes something so disgusting, smelly, or yucky that it makes your stomach feel bad, like you might need to throw up. It’s stronger than just gross—it’s the kind of gross that makes you feel sick.

The smell of the locker room after gym class was a nauseating cloud of feet, sweat, and regret.

The smell from my forgotten lunchbox was so nauseating it should have come with a warning label.

Watching my cousin mix ketchup, milk, and pickle juice into a smoothie was nauseating from three metres away.

The dragon’s breath was so nauseating the brave knight politely suggested gum before the battle.

The nauseating smell that makes you want to throw up is your body’s way of shouting, “Warning! This might be bad for you—run away!”

She stepped into the tiny cafe and froze. A nauseating smell of rotten fish hit her; the nauseating sight of spilled stew bubbled on the floor and a nauseating drip hung from the lamp. The nauseating heat made her head swim, a nauseating wave of sickness rising when someone licked a plate. She fled outside, breathed, and the sickness eased.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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