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Definition: Nauseous |
NauseousAdjective1. Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nauseous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Nauseous \Nau"seous\, adjective. [Latin expression nauseosus.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nausea is the sensation of unease and discomfort from the stomach, with the sufferer feeling that he is about to vomit (though he may not actually do so).It is a symptom of a huge variety of conditions, from motion sickness to morning sickness and encompassing viral infections and many other diseases. It is a side effect of many drugs, both therapeutic and recreational.
In medicine, nausea is the cause of most distressing problems during some chemotherapy regimens. Nausea is also a well-known "side-effect" of pregnancy and of blood donation.
Whilst short-term nausea and vomiting are in themselves harmless, they are indicative of some disease which may be serious, and a longer episode can result in serious dehydration, which is dangerous.
Symptomatic treatment for nausea and vomiting usually includes avoidance of solid food (which is usually easy as nausea suffers tend to refuse to eat) and rehydration (with electrolyte solutions if the symptoms have been persistent).
Nausea (French La Nausée) is a novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nausea."
Synonyms: NauseousSynonyms: loathsome (adj), nauseating (adj), noisome (adj), offensive (adj), sickening (adj), vile (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Disliked; Verb: uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful; offensive; disgusting; Verb: disagreeable c. (painful). |
Pain | Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous. |
Unsavoriness | Offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening. Verb: nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nauseous |
| English words defined with "nauseous": Cantharis ♦ danewort, Disrelish, dwarf elder ♦ Indican ♦ Mawmish ♦ Nauseative ♦ Sambucus ebulus ♦ Virose. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh my God, I feel so nauseous! (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Hey, I'm not nauseous. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) This whole concept of mom self-actualizing is making me nauseous. (Six Feet Under; writing credit: David Starkey) I would, but travel makes me nauseous. (What Dreams May Come; writing credit: Ronald Bass) But at least after death you are not nauseous. (Sleeper; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Lyrics | I'm just sittin' here makin' myself nauseous ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
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Health | Mild, clear liquids, such as water, clear broth, sports drinks such as Gatorade, or ginger ale, are best. If these drinks make you more thirsty or nauseous, try diluting them with water. (references) | |
Her headaches lasted 2 days. Nauseous and weak, she stayed in the dark until each attack was over. Today, although migraine still interferes with her life, she has fewer attacks and less severe headaches than before. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nauseous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nauseous" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 80 | 37,112 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nauseous | 17 |
after nauseous sex | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nauseous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që të shkakton të përzier, pështjellues. (various references) | |
Arabic | مقرف (detestable, disgusting, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, repulsive, sickening), مغث (brackish, disgusting, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, queasy, sickening, sickly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гаден (abominable, creepy, filthy, loathsome, nameless, nasty, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked). (various references) | |
Chinese | 令人恶心 (Nauseating). (various references) | |
Czech | pùsobící zvedání žaludku, odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile). (various references) | |
Dutch | stuitend (abhorrant, abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting, nasty). (various references) | |
Esperanto | naŭza (abhorrant, abominable, alien, disgusting, nasty). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vamlisligur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting, nasty), andstyggiligur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting, nasty, ugly). (various references) | |
Farsi | تهوع اور (Queasy). (various references) | |
Finnish | iljettävä (disgusting, loathsome, repulsive, sickening). (various references) | |
French | qui soulève le c"ur, dégoûtant (nasty). (various references) | |
German | ekelhaft (abominable, disgusting, foul, fulsome, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseously, odious, putrid, repugnant, revolting, sickening, ugly, vile), ekelerregend (disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, obscene, obscenely, revolting, sickening, sickeningly). (various references) | |
Greek | σιχαμερόσ (detestable, disgusting, repugnant), εμετικόσ (emetic, vomitive, vomitory), αηδιαστικόσ (disgusting, distasteful, loathful, loathsome, nasty, queasy, repulsive, sicking), αηδήσ (disgusting, fulsome, loathful, loathly, loathsome, mawkish, shocking, sickening). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ'עיל (disgusting, horrid, nasty, repulsive, revolting, slimy), מבחיל (nasty, odious, queasy, revolting, sickening, sickly), מסלי" (antipathetic, noisome, repulsive). (various references) | |
Hungarian | undok (abominable, execrable, hideous, nasty, nauseating, odious). (various references) | |
Italian | nauseante (disgusting, fulsome, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, nauseating, nauseously), disgustoso (abhorrent, disgustful, disgusting, fulsome, nasty, noisome, queasy, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 込み上'る (to experience a welling up of feelings or sensations, to feel nauseous, to fill), "み上'る (an end point, even though things may appear this way, here, hey!, nothing special, to experience a welling up of feelings or sensations, to feel nauseous, to fill, with this). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "みあ'る (to experience a welling up of feelings or sensations, to feel nauseous, to fill). (various references) | |
Manx | skeayagh (squeamish), jiooldagh (bilious, dissident, nauseating, negative, revolting, sickly, squeamish), feohdagh (abhorrent, abominable, execrable, filthy, hateful). (various references) | |
Papiamen | abominabel (abhorrent, abject, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, disdainful, disgusting, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, terrible). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auseousnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nauseante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting), nauseabundo (foul, putrid, queasy, stinking, unpalatable), repugnante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, brackish, carrion, disgusting, forbidding, grievous, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | |
Romanian | scârbos (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, bloody, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, fulsome, ghastly, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, unpleasant, verminous, vile), greţos (disgusting, gross, queasy, sickening, sickly, unsavory, unsavoury), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, obscene, odious, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury, vile). (various references) | |
Russian | тошнотворный (queasy, sickish, sickly), отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, damned, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, loathsome, morbid, nameless, nasty, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mučan (heavy, laborious, painful, teasing, thorny, troublesome, troublous, uneasy), koji izaziva muku, gadljiv (queasy, squeamish), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, ugly, vile). (various references) | |
Spanish | nauseabundo (disgusting, nauseating, nauseously, sickening, sickly). (various references) | |
Swedish | äcklig (bilious, cheesy, disgustful, disgusting, foul, fulsome). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งรู้สึกคลื่นไส้. (various references) | |
Turkish | mide bulandırıcı (fulsome, noisome, qualmish, queasy, sick, sickening, sickly), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck). (various references) | |
Turkmen | bulanmak (be mixed, feel nauseous, stirred). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смердючий (fetid, foetid, foul, goatish, malodorous, noisome, nosey, nosy, odoriferous, olid, pestilential, putrescent, putrid, smelly, stinking), гидкий на смак, відразливий (abhorrent, forbidding, horrid, loathsome, odious), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, noisome, qualmish, queasy, routine, sickish, sickly, treacly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tanh tưởi, l m nôn mửa tởm, gớm guốc (nameless, repugnant), gớm (loath, loth, repugnant), đáng ghê. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nauseous": nauseously, nauseousness, nauseousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Nauseous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maupeou, naseous, Nassirou, nauscous, nauseau, nauseaus, nauseo, nauseosus, nauseu, nauseuos, nauseus, nausious, nausous, nausus, nautious, Neususs, nuasious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nauseous" (pronounced nô"shus) |
| 4 | -ô" sh u s | cautious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, capacious, capricious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, efficacious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, fallacious, ferocious, fictitious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, loquacious, luscious, malicious, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, salacious, sebaceous, seditious, semiprecious, spacious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vicious, vivacious, voracious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-s-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: anuses, nouses, onuses, season, usneas. | |
-3 letters: aeons, noses, oases, sanes, sensa, sones, souse, unaus, usnea. | |
-4 letters: aeon, anes, anus, eons, naos, ness, noes, nose, nous, ones, onus, oses, ossa, sane, sans, seas, sone, sons, sous, sues, suns, unau, uses. | |
-5 letters: ane, ass, eau, ens, eon, ess, nae, nos, nus, oes, one, ons, ose, sae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-s-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: nauseously. | |
+3 letters: arduousness, fatuousness, raucousness, sanguineous, vacuousness. | |
+4 letters: cautiousness, fabulousness, glaucousness, househusband, nauseousness, simultaneous, subcutaneous, succedaneous, superabounds. | |
+5 letters: ambiguousness, arduousnesses, assiduousness, audaciousness, beauteousness, fatuousnesses, garrulousness, househusbands, rapturousness, raucousnesses, subterraneous, sulfonylureas, vacuousnesses. | |
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