nauseous, nauseated

nauseous, nauseated
Nauseous (NAW-zee-us) means "causing sickness"; nauseated means "feeling sickness," "being queasy." A gas, for instance, is nauseous and causes a person to become nauseated. (Nauseous is related in meaning to noisome, which means "foul," "filthy," or "dangerous," as in "a noisome odor.") "The audience was nauseated by the play." "Foul air nauseated the huge crowd." "Because the fumes were nauseous, the people became nauseated."

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