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nauseous

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nau·seous  (nôshs, -z-s)
adj.
1. Causing nausea; sickening: "the most nauseous offal fit for the gods" John Fowles.
2. Usage Problem Affected with nausea.

nauseous·ly adv.
nauseous·ness n.
Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean "causing nausea" and that it is incorrect to use it to mean "affected with nausea," as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean "feeling sick," it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its "correct" sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.

nauseous
Adjective
1. as if about to be sick: he felt nauseous
2. sickening
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.nauseousnauseous - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
unwholesome - detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
2.nauseous - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

nauseous
adjective 1. sick, crook Austral., N.Z. (informal)
adjective 2. sickening, offensive, disgusting, revolting, distasteful, repulsive, nauseating, repugnant, loathsome, abhorrent, detestable, yucky or yukky (slang) yucko Austral. (slang)
Translations
Spanish nauseous [ˈnɔːsɪəs] adjnauseabundo;
to feel nauseous → sentir náuseas

French nauseous [ˈnɔːsɪəs] adjnauséabond(e)écœurant(e) (= feeling sick);
to be nauseous → avoir des nausées

German nauseous [ˈnɔːsɪəs] nausea adjekelhaft;
I feel nauseous nausea → mir ist übel

Italian nauseous [ˈnɔːsɪəs] adjnauseabondo/a (= feeling sick): to be nauseous → avere la nausea

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This man, who might have brought us to the king in three days, led us out of the way through horrid deserts destitute of water, or where what we found was so foul, nauseous, and offensive, that it excited a loathing and aversion which nothing but extreme necessity could have overcome.
Particularly nauseous were the blank, expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.
The water tasted like a solution of a dozen disagreeable things, and was sufficiently nauseous to have made the fortune of the proprietor, had the spa been situated in the midst of any civilized community.
 
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