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Nauseous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NAUSEOUS, a. Lothesome; disgustful; disgusting; regarded with abhorrence; as a nauseous drug or medicine.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1612 1. causing nausea or disgust ; nauseating 2. affected with nausea or disgust • nauseously adverb • nauseousness noun Usage: Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous in sense 2.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 causing nausea. 2 offensive to the taste or smell. 3 disgusting; loathsome. Derivatives: nauseously adv. nauseousness n. Etymology: L nauseosus (as NAUSEA)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nauseous Nau"seous (?; 277), a. [L. nauseosus.] Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you feel nauseous, you feel as if you want to vomit. If the patient is poorly nourished, the drugs make them feel nauseous... A nauseous wave of pain broke over her. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Disgusting, loathsome, disgustful, nauseating, sickening, revolting, repulsive, distasteful, offensive.

Moby Thesaurus

abhorrent, airsick, anguished, anxious, bad, barfy, bored, brackish, carsick, cheerless, cloying, depressed, disgusted, disgusting, emetic, fetid, foul, fulsome, grim, high, icky, joyless, loathsome, maggoty, mawkish, nasty, nauseant, nauseated, nauseating, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, pleasureless, poisonous, prey to malaise, pukish, puky, qualmish, qualmy, queasy, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repelled, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolted, revolting, rotten, sad, seasick, sickened, sickening, spoiled, squeamish, stinking, suffering angst, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unpleasant, unquiet, unsatisfied, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky