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nauseous
/ˈnɔʃəs/
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What does nauseous mean?
adjective
- Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
- Afflicted with nausea; sick.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- (obsolete) Inclined to nausea; sickly, squeamish.
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As she opened the door he smelt the sickly sweet smell which makes the neighbourhood of the leper nauseous.
These colours are probably beneficial by making this animal known to all birds of prey as a nauseous mouthful.
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Here, but not so nauseous, are the excrements of an old mind, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, and always indigested.
Dim memories of unaccustomed faces in the bedroom, of nauseous drugs and hushed voices, came to him out of the night-time.
You are not descended from a nauseous compound of fanaticism and sensuality, whose only argument was the sword, and whose only paradise was a brothel.