nauseous

3 definitions found

nauseous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nauseous \Nau"seous\ (?; 277), a. [L. nauseosus.]
     1. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome;
        disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or
        medicine.
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     2. Feeling nausea; as, nauseous from the effects of
        chemotherapy.
        [PJC] -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n.
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              The nauseousness of such company disgusts a
              reasonable man.                       --Dryden.
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nauseous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nauseous
      adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
             "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn:
             nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy,
             loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
      2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated,
         nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]

nauseous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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