1. Causing or able to cause nausea
   "the nauseating flight had bad turbulence";
   - nauseous, queasy, sickening, vomitous [US]
    
2. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
   "the town's nauseating smell was from the factory nearby";
   - disgusting, disgustful [archaic], foul, loathly [literary], loathsome, repellent, repellant, revolting, wicked, yucky [informal], gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal], sickening, vile
    
3. Morally repugnant or distasteful; causing disgust or strong disapproval
   "he made a nauseating joke about the tragedy";
   - unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn], offensive, sick, sickening, loathsome

1. Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
   "The pornographic pictures nauseated us";
   - disgust, revolt, sicken
    
2. Cause feelings of nausea or disgust
   "The mould on the food nauseated the diners";
   - sicken, turn one's stomach

See also: abhorrent, absonant [archaic], despicable, detestable, distasteful, gut-wrenching, obscene, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, slimy, ugly, unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn], unwholesome, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched

Type of: disgust, gross out [informal], repel, repulse, revolt

Encyclopedia: Nauseating