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nauseous

/ˈnɔːziːəs//ˈnɔʃəs/

nauseous adjective: causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.

Adjective

nauseous (comparative more nauseous, superlative most nauseous)

  1. Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
    • […] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer,
      And guilty shame, and servile fear,
      Envy, and cruelty, and pride,
      Will in your tainted heart preside.1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, visiting me in my sickness
    • [T]he Italians grossness of Conversation is still very offensive & nauseous, tho' long accustomed to it.1786 June 27, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana
  2. (obsolete) Inclined to nausea; sickly, squeamish.
  3. (proscribed) Afflicted with nausea; sick.
    • After he had scarcely eaten enough, he felt nauseous; but nausea ceased as soon as he stopped eating entirely, …1848, Samuel Hahnemann, The Chronic Diseases, Their Specific Nature and Their Homeopathic Treatment: Antipsoric Remedies, Volume 2
    • […] during stretching the patient felt nauseous …1878, The North American Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 27

nauseous meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

nauseous in Urdu

مکروہ, حقارت آمیز, قے آور

nauseous in Malayalam

nauseated, sick, queasy
മനംപിരട്ടുന്ന, വമനേച്ഛയുള്ള, ഓക്കാനിക്കുന്ന, ഓക്കാനം വരുത്തുന്ന, പിത്തം വളർത്തുന്ന, രോഗാവസ്ഥയിലായ
nauseating, sickening, stomach-churning
ഓക്കാനമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, ഛർദ്ദിയുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, ഓക്കാനം വരുത്തുന്ന, മനംപിരട്ടലുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, ചൊരുക്കൻ, ചൊരുക്കുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന

Examples of nauseous in a sentence

  • And then what proper person can be partial / To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
  • I often do and haven't felt remotely nauseous.2010 September 4, Tom Smith, The Guardian:

Synonyms of nauseous

Forms of nauseous

comparativemore nauseous
superlativemost nauseous

Origin of nauseous

From Latin nauseōsus (“causing nausea”), corresponding synchronically to nausea + -ous.

Words formed from nauseous

Questions about nauseous

What does nauseous mean?
Nauseous means causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
What is nauseous in Urdu?
Nauseous in Urdu is مکروہ, حقارت آمیز, قے آور. See Nauseous meaning in Urdu.
How do you use nauseous in a sentence?
And then what proper person can be partial / To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
What part of speech is nauseous?
Nauseous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce nauseous?
Nauseous is pronounced /ˈnɔːziːəs/ (UK).

Words near nauseous in the dictionary

  1. nauseative
  2. naused up
  3. nauseogenic
  4. nauseogenicity
  5. nauseogenity
  6. nauseous
  7. nauseously
  8. nauseousness
  9. nauses
  10. nauses up
  11. Nauset

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nauseous (page history and authors); nauseous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nauseous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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