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Webster 1913 Edition


Nauseous

Nau′seous

(?; 277)
,
Adj.
[L.
nauseosus
.]
1.
Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence;
as, a
nauseous
drug or medicine
.
Nau′seous-ly
,
adv.
Nau′seous-ness
,
Noun.
The
nauseousness
of such company disgusts a reasonable man.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nauseous

NAUSEOUS

,
Adj.
Lothesome; disgustful; disgusting; regarded with abhorrence; as a nauseous drug or medicine.

Definition 2024


nauseous

nauseous

English

Adjective

nauseous (comparative more nauseous, superlative most nauseous)

  1. Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
      And then what proper person can be partial / To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
  2. (sometimes proscribed) Afflicted with nausea; sick.
    • 1848, Samuel Hahnemann, The Chronic Diseases, Their Specific Nature and Their Homeopathic Treatment: Antipsoric Remedies, Volume 2:
      After he had scarcely eaten enough, he felt nauseous; but nausea ceased as soon as he stopped eating entirely, …
    • 1878, The North American Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 27:
      … during stretching the patient felt nauseous
    • 2010, Tom Smith, The Guardian, 4 Sep 2010:
      Is it a myth that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics? I often do and haven't felt remotely nauseous.

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