Meaning

2 senses
  1. Causing sickness or disgust.

    sickening cruelty

    sickening toxic fumes

    ekelhaft, widerlich, abscheulich

    тошнотво́рныйtošnotvórnyj, отврати́тельныйotvratítelʹnyj

    нудо́тнийnudótnyj

    causing or able to cause nausea

  2. Amazing, fantastic.

Translations

6 languages
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Русский
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Deutsch
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causing sickness or disgust:

Origin

By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.

By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.

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Forms

more sickening, most sickening
Comparativemore sickening Lesson
Superlativemost sickening Lesson

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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