Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Causing nausea; sickening: "the most nauseous offal fit for the gods” ( John Fowles).
- adj. Usage Problem Affected with nausea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Exciting or fitted to excite nausea; turning the stomach; disgusting; loathsome.
- Happily it was not every Speaker that was like Rich whose extant addresses to the king are nauseous compliments on his majesty's gifts ot nature, fortune, and grace.
- Synonyms Sickening, revolting, repulsive.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
- adj. nonstandard Afflicted with nausea; sick.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence.
- adj. Feeling nausea.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- adj. causing or able to cause nausea
Etymologies
- From Latin nauseosus, corresponding to nausea + -ous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“York consignees, says, that if the tea arrives subject to duty, "there will be no such thing as selling it, as the people would rather buy so much poison, as they say it is calculated to enslave them and their posterity, and are therefore determined not to take what they call the nauseous draught.”
“But if it should be subject to a duty here, I am much in doubt whether it will be safe, as almost every body in that case speaks against the admission of it, so that, altho 'I am well assured that the Governor will not suffer the laws to be trampled on, yet there will be no such thing as selling it, as the people would rather buy so much poison, than the tea with the duty thereon, calculated (they say) to enslave them and their posterity, and therefore are determined not to take what they call the nauseous draft.”
“Keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well feeling nauseous is usually a good signBonne Continuation!!”
“Besides feeling tired and nauseous from the altitude I had to stop every five meters to catch my breath and ask myself what the hell was I doing this for; and my legs felt like lead, in concrete boots.”
“I dig inside my jeans pocket and hand him four glittery Barbie candles in nauseous shades of pink and purple, then turn back to Tadpole, my head spinning.”
“The handheld cinematography accentuates the horrendous circumstances a bit too strongly (I found myself getting nauseous from the shaky camerawork), and the 154-minute running time does not exactly fly by.”
“Also, I was gulping it down like medicine, in nauseous haste to get the ordeal over.”
“That’s if you weren’t already nauseous from the horrific camera work …”
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“When he’s not too nauseous from the chemotherapy, he nibbles on his favorite foods cheerios, ravioli and toast.”
“I’ll just say that I’m probably still going to be nauseous from the fake theater popcorn butter by the time this gets released on DVD.”
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tomsteele You are nauseous, and I'm nauseated. Dec 24, 2006