nauseous
nauseous is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 31 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acerbity
- acrid
- acridity
- acrimonious
- acrimony
- amaritude
- and
- austerity
- bitter
- bitterness
- disgust
- fulsome
- gall
- loathsome
- nasty
- nauseate
- offensive
- pall
- quassia
- repulsive
- rough
- roughness
- rue
- sicken
- sickening
- sour
- stomach
- the
- turn
- unpleasant
- wormwood
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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