mal de mer

Examples

• All

• After a few hours of sailing, I realized that I was suffering from mal de mer and needed fresh air.

• Mr. B has a touch of mal de mer.

  Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

• Alas, Monsieur, ever since I was a small boy, I have suffered from le mal de mer.

  Evil Under the Sun (1982)

• I find that bodily I am proof now against seasickness, but my temper has a violent attack of mal de mer.

  Blog text (22)

• The train rocked like a ship at sea, and sleepers held to their berths in terror, the more nervous actually succumbing to mal de mer.

  Blog text (22)

• Our first night out, the ship plunged through foaming Atlantic swells that sent Mom to bed with what she called "terminal mal de mer," but dawn broke on a tranquil ocean and balmy skies.

  Academic text (2001)

• While on the cruise, several passengers were affected by mal de mer and had to stay in their cabins.

• She tried to read a book, but the waves made her feel queasy with mal de mer.

Synonyms

M

motion sickness

vsmal de mer

11 3.0

Feeling dizzy and sick when you travel in cars, boats or planes

is limited to illness caused specifically by sea travel

S

seasickness

vsmal de mer

6 3.5

A feeling of being sick with nausea and dizziness on a moving boat

is the illness that occurs specifically during sea travel

N

naupathia

vsmal de mer

• Archaic

9.9

A feeling of sickness and dizziness when you travel on water, like on a boat

is the common everyday term rather than the medical label

Antonyms

C

comfort

190 1.0

A feeling of physical ease and being free from pain

W

wellness

52 3.2

Good physical and mental health that people try to keep

How Severe

dehydration

37 3.8

vomiting

7 2.0

mal de mer

9.9

nausea

91 3.0

queasiness

3 5.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology