Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing nausea; sickening.
- adjective Usage Problem Affected with nausea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence.
- adjective Feeling nausea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
nausea ;sickening ordisgusting . - adjective nonstandard Afflicted with nausea;
sick .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- adjective causing or able to cause nausea
Etymologies
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Examples
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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."
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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.
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Keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well feeling nauseous is usually a good signBonne Continuation!!
skateboard 2009
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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.
Climbing Kilimanjaro 2009
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Also, I was gulping it down like medicine, in nauseous haste to get the ordeal over.
Chapter 3 2010
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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.
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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.
calling in favours 2007
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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.
cake 2007
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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.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2006
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Also, I was gulping it down like medicine, in nauseous haste to get the ordeal over.
Chapter III 1913
tomsteele commented on the word nauseous
You are nauseous, and I'm nauseated.
December 24, 2006