ad nauseam
14
8.4
- idiom
- /æd ˈnɔːziˌæm/
:
hasta la saciedad
- We've talked about that issue ad nauseam, and it's time to move on.
- repeated ad nauseam
All of this we're seeing, you know, being discussed, you know, ad nauseam online.
- All of this we're seeing, you know, being discussed, you know, ad nauseam online.
- So they're the ones that are calling, emailing and texting them like ad nauseam.
- I went into that professorial mode where you just kind of ask questions ad nauseam.
- As my listeners and and viewers will will know, for the past two years or so I've been talking almost ad nauseam about animal rights.
- And that, that is the, the methodology that invite the implements again and again and again, ad nauseam.
- So at this point on this channel, on this YouTube channel, we have talked about trauma bonding ad nauseam.
- It was just like a little little twin bed and it was just me and, and just, I'm rehearsing Radiohead's Creep ad nauseam.
- We've parsed through ad nauseam the absolute cinematic peak.
- And I've taken those classes over the years, you know, ad nauseam.
- And there are individuals who argue this on both a side ad nauseam.
- It's not this perfectly smooth tic Tac that, you know, people keep repeating ad nauseam in these.
- Eat it up, people right that that happens ad nauseam and like to kind of circle back to the Beyoncé thing right.
- It's very, very clinical, scientific, informative and pragmatic to the point of just ad nauseam.
Examples
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I have been calling you guys, leaving messages ad nauseam, and here you are, finally getting back to me.
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That's what we've been hearing from pollsters and pundits ad nauseam for months.
Blog text (9) -
And we'll discuss this ad nauseam later on, OK.
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OK, so then this continues ad nauseam for a while.
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Main problem between men and women right there, women like to talk about their problems in detail ad nauseam.
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Otherwise, we would be hearing ad nauseam about how the right needs that group.
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You could do that here and you can have it repeat ad nauseam over and over.
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All of this we're seeing, you know, being discussed, you know, ad nauseam online.
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I have had this discussion ad nauseam with others over the last five days.
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We've had this conversation ad nauseam.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
3
7.0
In a way that makes you feel very disgusted or sick
2
8.2
In a very annoying way that people cannot stand
In a way that makes you feel sick or disgusted
Antonyms
How Repetitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
ad + nauseam
This is a borrowed Latin phrase whose parts ('ad' and 'nauseam') are not productive English morphemes for a B1 learner and are not defined in the input. The overall meaning ('to a sickening or excessive degree') cannot be reliably derived from the constituents by an average B1 learner, so its interpretation is idiomatic/borrowed rather than transparently compositional.
Etymology
Ad nauseam comes from Latin; the parts ad and nauseam mean 'to' and 'sickness'. It creates the image of something repeated until you feel 'sick', so it now means 'repeated so often it becomes annoying'.