nauseous

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.

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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.

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nauseous

Adjective

1. as if about to be sick: he felt nauseous

2. sickening

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	nauseous - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" loathsome, nauseating, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile, offensive unwholesome - detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
	2.	nauseous - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit nauseated, sickish, queasy, sick ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

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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

nauseous [ˈnɔːsɪəs] adj → nauseabundo;

to feel nauseous → sentir náuseas

nauseous [ˈnɔːsɪəs] adj → nauséabond(e) → écœurant(e) (= feeling sick);

to be nauseous → avoir des nausées

nauseous [ˈnɔːsɪəs] nausea adj → ekelhaft;

I feel nauseous nausea → mir ist übel

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