Nauseous
/ˈnɔʃəs/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
"[…] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer, And guilty shame, and servile fear, Envy, and cruelty, and pride, Will in your tainted heart preside."
- 2 Inclined to nausea; sickly, squeamish. obsolete
- 3 Afflicted with nausea; sick. proscribed
"After he had scarcely eaten enough, he felt nauseous; but nausea ceased as soon as he stopped eating entirely, …"
Adjective
- 1 feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit wordnet
- 2 causing or able to cause nausea wordnet
Example
More examples"The smell of macaroni and cheese makes me nauseous."
Etymology
From Latin nauseōsus (“causing nausea”), corresponding synchronically to nausea + -ous.