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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nauseous \Nau"seous\ (?; 277), a. [L. nauseosus.]
     1. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome;
        disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or
        medicine.
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     2. Feeling nausea; as, nauseous from the effects of
        chemotherapy.
        [PJC] -- {Nau"seous*ly}, adv. -- {Nau"seous*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The nauseousness of such company disgusts a
              reasonable man.                       --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nauseous
       adj : causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
             "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: {nauseating},
              {noisome}, {loathsome}, {offensive}, {sickening}, {vile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "nauseous":
     abhorrent, airsick, anguished, anxious, bad, barfy, bored,
     brackish, carsick, cheerless, cloying, depressed, disgusted,
     disgusting, emetic, fetid, foul, fulsome, grim, high, icky,
     joyless, loathsome, maggoty, mawkish, nasty, nauseant, nauseated,
     nauseating, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, pleasureless,
     poisonous, prey to malaise, pukish, puky, qualmish, qualmy, queasy,
     rancid, rank, rebarbative, repelled, repellent, repugnant,
     repulsive, revolted, revolting, rotten, sad, seasick, sickened,
     sickening, spoiled, squeamish, stinking, suffering angst, uneasy,
     unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unpleasant, unquiet,
     unsatisfied, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky
  
  

















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