单词 | nauseous |
释义 | nauseous (once / 5760 pages) adj If you’re nauseous, you feel queasy and sick to your stomach, and you might feel like vomiting. Could be the stomach flu or too much food before that roller-coaster ride. Nauseous comes from the Latin word nausea, which means "seasickness." That's certainly one reason for getting nauseous, but we don't limit this word to the seafaring world anymore. Not only do we use this adjective when we're feeling queasy, but we also use it to describe whatever is making us feel queasy. A smell that turns your stomach is a nauseous smell. We also use nauseous figuratively when we're "grossed out" by someone who's overly romantic or self-involved. WORD FAMILYnauseous: nauseously+/nausea: nauseate, nauseous/nauseate: nauseated, nauseates, nauseating/nauseating: nauseatingly, nauseatingness USAGE EXAMPLESMeanwhile, Roethlisberger only played as if he were nauseous, completing 19 of 34 with two interceptions. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) “If I think about it for too long, I get nauseous.” Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) He says he felt less nauseous when he woke up on match day, but he certainly looked like he was still feeling its effects. Seattle Times(Nov 27, 2016) 1adj causing or able to cause nausea nauseous offal Syn loathsome, nauseating, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile unwholesome detrimental to physical or moral well-being 2adj feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit Syn nauseated, queasy, sick, sickish ill, sick affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function |
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