- 1
Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
- […] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer, And guilty shame, and servile fear, Envy, and cruelty, and pride, Will in your tainted heart preside.
- [T]he Italians grossness of Conversation is still very offensive & nauseous, tho' long accustomed to it.
- 2
Inclined to nausea; sickly, squeamish.obsolete
- 3
Afflicted with nausea; sick.proscribed
- After he had scarcely eaten enough, he felt nauseous; but nausea ceased as soon as he stopped eating entirely, …
- […] during stretching the patient felt nauseous …
syn. nauseating