adjective
- affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- causing nausea; sickening; nauseating.
- disgusting; loathsome: a nauseous display of greed.
adjective
- feeling sick
- causing nausea
- distasteful to the mind or senses; repulsive
adj.c.1600, “inclined to nausea, easily made queasy” (obsolete), from nausea + -ous. Sense of “causing nausea or squeamishness” is attested from 1610s. For distinction from nauseated see nauseate. Related: Nauseously; nauseousness. adj.
- Causing nausea.
- Affected with nausea.