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nauseousOne entry found. Main Entry: nau·seous Pronunciation: \ˈnȯ-shəs, ˈnȯ-zē-əs\ Function: adjective Date: 1612 1 : causing nausea or disgust : nauseating — nau·seous·ly adverb — nau·seous·ness noun usage Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous in sense 2.
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