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NAUSEOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Synonyms:
nauseated; nauseous; queasy; sick; sickish
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Derivation:
nausea (the state that precedes vomiting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Causing or able to cause nausea
Example:
a sickening stench
Synonyms:
loathsome; nauseating; nauseous; noisome; offensive; queasy; sickening; vile
Classified under:
Similar:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
Derivation:
nausea (disgust so strong it makes you feel sick)
Context examples:
The nipple was about half the bigness of my head, and the hue both of that and the dug, so varied with spots, pimples, and freckles, that nothing could appear more nauseous: for I had a near sight of her, she sitting down, the more conveniently to give suck, and I standing on the table.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diversion was to see me eat in miniature: for the queen (who had indeed but a weak stomach) took up, at one mouthful, as much as a dozen English farmers could eat at a meal, which to me was for some time a very nauseous sight.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Their next business is from herbs, minerals, gums, oils, shells, salts, juices, sea-weed, excrements, barks of trees, serpents, toads, frogs, spiders, dead men’s flesh and bones, birds, beasts, and fishes, to form a composition, for smell and taste, the most abominable, nauseous, and detestable, they can possibly contrive, which the stomach immediately rejects with loathing, and this they call a vomit; or else, from the same store-house, with some other poisonous additions, they command us to take in at the orifice above or below (just as the physician then happens to be disposed) a medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the bowels; which, relaxing the belly, drives down all before it; and this they call a purge, or a clyster.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
