nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish
(adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
nauseous (comparative more nauseous, superlative most nauseous)
Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
(sometimes, proscribed) Afflicted with nausea; sick.
• nauseating - causing disgust rather than nausea
Source: Wiktionary
Nau"seous, a. Etym: [L. nauseosus.]
Definition: 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
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
