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nauseous

/ˈnɔʃəs/

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What does nauseous mean?

adjective

  1. Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
  2. Afflicted with nausea; sick.
More meanings (1)

adjective

  1. (obsolete) Inclined to nausea; sickly, squeamish.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈnɔʃəs/

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/ˈnɔʒəs/
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As she opened the door he smelt the sickly sweet smell which makes the neighbourhood of the leper nauseous.
W. Somerset (William Somerset) MaughamThe Moon and SixpenceProject Gutenberg ebook #222
These colours are probably beneficial by making this animal known to all birds of prey as a nauseous mouthful.
Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexProject Gutenberg ebook #2300
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Here, but not so nauseous, are the excrements of an old mind, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, and always indigested.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
Dim memories of unaccustomed faces in the bedroom, of nauseous drugs and hushed voices, came to him out of the night-time.
Harold FredericThe Damnation of Theron WareProject Gutenberg ebook #133
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.
John Quincy AdamsThe Jubilee of the Constitution Delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, Before the New York Historical SocietyProject Gutenberg ebook #896