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Definition of Nauseous
1. Adjective. Causing or able to cause nausea. "A sickening stench"
Similar to: Unwholesome
Derivative terms: Loathsomeness, Nauseatingness, Nausea, Noisomeness, Offend, Offensiveness, Sickeningness, Vileness
2. Adjective. Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.
Similar to: Ill, Sick
Derivative terms: Nausea, Queasiness, Sickness
Definition of Nauseous
1. a. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.
Definition of Nauseous
1. Adjective. Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting. ¹
2. Adjective. (nonstandard) Afflicted with nausea; sick. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nauseous
1. affected with nausea [adj]
Medical Definition of Nauseous
1. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. Nau"seously, Nau"seousness, "The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man." (Dryden) Origin: L. Nauseosus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nauseous
Literary usage of Nauseous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The OED lists three senses of nauseous that have been in existence since the ...
The focus of the controversy is a sense of nauseous meaning “affected by ..."
2. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"A nauseous curiosity made them rummage all the dressing-rooms, all the recesses.
Returned convicts thrust their arms into the beds in which princesses had ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The stems and leaves, which are very bitter and nauseous tasting and smelling,
have been used in dyeing and tanning, and the fibre of the former used to ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Reject the nauseous praises of the times; Give thy base poets back their cobbled
Survey thy soul,11 not what thou dost appear, But what thou art, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"Ipecacuanha thus prepared is administered in the same doses as ordinary ipecacuanha,
having all the properties of the latter: it has only lost its nauseous ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1876)
"Medicines dissolved, communicate their taste, pungent, bitter, styptic, nauseous,
or otherwise intolerable, and suspended, they have those well-known ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... each accompanying common species which they closely resembled; and one of the
common species possesses a bitter and nauseous taste ; so that this would ..."
8. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Bents — Trade — Little Arkansas — A nauseous Meal — A Flood — An Onset — A Hard
Ride — The Deliverance — The Arkansas — An Attack — The Similitude of Death ..."
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