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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. causing or able to cause nausea;
- Example: "a nauseating smell"
- Example: "nauseous offal"
- Example: "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]



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]


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]