nauseous
- adjective
- /ˈnɔːʒəs/
- She was nauseous during the long car trip, especially on the winding roads.
- make someone nauseous
What's worse than feeling nauseous all day long?
- What's worse than feeling nauseous all day long?
- I'm worried about when I'm going to get pregnant because feeling nauseous is horrible.
- Oh, I feel a little nauseous, but I set a goal and I accomplished it.
- So when I start heading home from the airport, I get nauseous in the backseat on my phone for too long.
- OK, Don't blame me if you watch one of these simulations and get very nauseous.
- I found when I would take my prenatals during the day, they would get me nauseous.
- Because tomorrow I got to do the again, man, Whatever this is that made me nauseous and sick to my stomach.
- excited it's snowing outside, little bit nauseous. Probably cause I've been slept well
- If snacking regularly when I'm pregnant helps me, you know, feel less nauseous, little seaweed snacks.
Examples
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Anyway, Sarah has a condition where she gets nauseous at the slightest smell and sight of certain foods.
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Listening to the roller coaster ride descriptions always makes me feel nauseous.
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God, I still get nauseous before I have to go out there.
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But he started to feel nauseous on the way back.
Fiction book (1996) -
What's worse than feeling nauseous all day long?
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I'm feeling a little nauseous!
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Nearly everybody got nauseous during their first few hours in weightlessness.
Fiction book (2001) -
It seemed to go perfectly, but then... he started to feel nauseous on the way back.
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The rocking of the small boat and the smell of fish had made her nauseous.
Fiction book (1999) -
After eating that old pizza, I felt nauseous and had to sit down.
Synonyms
Feeling like you might throw up
Feeling sick and likely to throw up
Feeling sick and likely to vomit
Feeling like you will throw up or making someone feel like that
Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up
Feeling like you are about to throw up
Feeling slightly sick or disgusted after seeing something unpleasant
Antonyms
How Nauseous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word nauseous comes from the Greek nausia, which meant 'seasickness' and came from a word for 'ship', the same idea behind nautical and astronaut. So nauseous originally described the sick feeling on a rocking boat, and today it means 'feeling as if you will vomit'.