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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing nausea; sickening: "the most nauseous offal fit for the gods” ( John Fowles).
  2. adj. Usage Problem Affected with nausea.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Exciting or fitted to excite nausea; turning the stomach; disgusting; loathsome.
  2. 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.
  3. Synonyms Sickening, revolting, repulsive.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
  2. adj. nonstandard Afflicted with nausea; sick.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence.
  2. adj. Feeling nausea.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  2. adj. causing or able to cause nausea

Etymologies

  1. From Latin nauseosus, corresponding to nausea + -ous. (Wiktionary)

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