nauseous at English => English (Longman) Of Explained:
adj
1 especially AmE feeling that you are going to vomit: sick// --I felt slightly nauseous .// --The taste made me nauseous .//
2 formal making you feel that you are going to vomit: --a nauseous smell//
nauseous at English => English (Moby Thesaurus II) Of Explained:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "nauseous":
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
nauseous at English => English (English Thesaurus) Of Explained:
[ADJ] (Unsavoriness): unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, ill-flavored, bitter, acrid, acrimonious, offensive, repulsive, nasty, sickening, nauseous, nauseating, loathsome, unpleasant.
[ADJ] (Disease): diseased, ailing, ill, sick, nauseous, nauseated, indisposed, unwell, squeamish, poorly, laid up, bedridden, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, infirm.
nauseous at English => English (Oxford Advanced Learners) Of Explained:
adjective
1 feeling as if you want to VOMIT:
She felt dizzy and nauseous.
2 making you feel as if you want to VOMIT:
a nauseous smell
Nauseous at English => English (Websters 1913) Of Explained:
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.
nauseous at English => English (WordNet) Of Explained:
nauseous
adj : causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: {nauseating},
{noisome}, {loathsome}, {offensive}, {sickening}, {vile}]
nauseous at English (WD) Of Explained:
==English==
Etymology
From Latin nauseosus, corresponding to nausea + -ous.Pronunciation
* Inter: a » UK Inter: IPA » /ˈnɔːzɪəs/|/ˈnɔːsɪəs/Adjective
Inter: en-ad » jUsage notes
While "nauseous" is often used to mean "afflicted with nausea", this is considered less correct than the first definition. The Elements of Style, for example, recommends not to "say 'I feel nauseous,' unless you are sure you have that effect on others."Synonyms
* nauseating - causing disgust rather than nauseaSee also
* nauseated - afflicted with nauseaTranslations
Inter: trans-top » Causing nausea; sickening or disgustingInter: trans-mi » d
- Russian: Inter: t+ » ru|тошнотворный, Inter: t+ » ru|отвратительный
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » Afflicted with nausea
- Dutch: Inter: t+ » nl|misselijk
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: checktrans-to » p
- Dutch: Inter: t+ » nl|walgelijk, Inter: t- » nl|degoutant, Inter: t- » nl|misselijkmakend
- Finnish: Inter: t- » fi|kuvottava
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Translation: et » nauseous
Translation: el » nauseous
Translation: es » nauseous
Translation: fr » nauseous
Translation: ko » nauseous
Translation: my » nauseous
Translation: pl » nauseous
Translation: ru » nauseous
Translation: fi » nauseous
Translation: ta » nauseous
Translation: te » nauseous
Translation: vi » nauseous
Translation: zh » nauseous