Nauseous \Nau"seous\ (?; 277), a. [L. nauseosus.]
1. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome;
disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or
medicine.
[1913 Webster]
2. Feeling nausea; as, nauseous from the effects of
chemotherapy.
[PJC] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nauseous
adj : causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating,
noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
WordNet (r) 2.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "nauseous":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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