Meaning of NAUSEOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'noshus
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[adj] causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" |
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NAUSEOUS is a 8 letter word that starts with N. |
| | Synonyms: | | loathsome, nauseating, noisome, offensive, sickening, unwholesome, vile |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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