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nauseous

nauseous

3 4.4
A smell or taste that makes you feel sick
  • adjective
  • /ˈnɔːʒəs/
translation icon : nauseabundo
  • Now please leave, you're making me nauseous.
  • make her nauseous
  • feel nauseous

They pose their little loved up pictures and in some cases it'll make you nauseous because it's like someone is now living in your love bombed life from the past.

Examples

  • Then she say to me, "Enough, you are making me nauseous."

  • They're making me nauseous.

  • Okay, I have to go, because I just made another passenger nauseous.

  • The treatments not only failed to arrest the cancer, but also made her incredibly nauseous.

    Blog text (5)
  • Now, they have the ability to make you nauseous and dizzy.

  • Be watching news on TV that's so bad, it makes you nauseous.

  • It was so nice the first couple of weeks not to feel nauseous.

    Blog text (5)
  • It made them weak and nauseous.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Are you feeling nauseous?

  • The air was nauseous from the strong scent of rotten eggs, making everyone feel sick.

Synonyms

sickening
vsnauseous
50 5.1

That causes a strong feeling of wanting to vomit or of disgust

is about ability to cause nausea rather than describing intensity
nauseating
vsnauseous
14 5.1

Making people feel sick or want to throw up

is about the general ability to cause nausea rather than direct action
vomitous
vsnauseous
1 8.7

Very disgusting and likely to make someone want to throw up

is milder and means it causes or can cause nausea without extreme disgust
barfy
vsnauseous
  • Informal
1 8.9

Feeling like you will throw up or making someone feel like that

is the neutral general adjective for causing the feeling of nausea

Antonyms

314 1.0

Giving a gentle feeling of enjoyment

How Sickening

sickening
50 5.1
nauseous
3 4.4
nauseating
14 5.1
off-putting
20 6.1
unpleasant
215 1.0

Surface Forms

nauseous positive
nauseouser comparative
nauseousest superlative

Morphology

nauseous = nausea (transparent) = nausea + ous

Derived transparently from 'nausea' + '-ous'; the sense 'causing nausea' is a regular adjectival meaning.

Etymology

The word nauseous also comes from Latin nauseosus and Greek nausia, where it meant 'causing sickness' or 'full of sickness'. So we use nauseous for things, like a bad smell or spoiled food, that make you feel sick.