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for nauseous
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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] -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
The nauseousness of such company disgusts a
reasonable man. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
nauseous
adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn:
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy,
loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated,
nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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
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