HOW TO PRONOUNCE
Ad Nauseam
/ˌæd ˈnɔziəm/
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What does Ad Nauseam mean?
adverb
- To a nauseating or sickening degree.
- Having been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome.
adjective
- Done or repeated so often that it becomes annoying or tiresome.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌæd ˈnɔziəm/
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Observations multiplied ad nauseam have taught me where to find the males and where the females in this apiary.
We have coffee tins, meat tins, salmon tins, and tins ad nauseam.
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S— is an excellent traveller; no grumbling, and no gossiping, which, on board a ship like ours, is a great merit, for there is ad nauseam of both.
Well, during the six years that I have studied this question, I have seen and seen again, ad nauseam; and I am in a position to declare that there is no order governing the sequence of hatchings, absolutely none.
I most entirely agree with you on the little effects of "climatal conditions," which one sees referred to ad nauseam in all books: I suppose some very little effect must be attributed to such influences, but I fully believe that they are very slight.