Synonyms for nauseous
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Nauseating
nauseating, disgusting, sickening, loathsome, bad, unpleasant, revolting, offensive, nasty, vile, repulsive, distasteful, unpalatable, foul, mawkish, noisome formal, obscene, grim, abominable, fulsome, yucky informal, repugnant
Other
stawsome UK
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
- adj. 2
Afflicted with nausea; sick.
Related words
- Word family
- nauseated
Example sentences
- disgusting What's the most disgusting food you've ever eaten?
- unpleasant He spoke about the unpleasant story for two hours.
- sickening Experience the sickening knotting of the stomach.
- nauseating Tom's obsequiousness towards John was nauseating.
- queasy Tom had a queasy feeling in the pit of his stomach.
- nauseated Linda felt nauseated and suspected she was pregnant.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| nauseous | rising | |
| disgusting | rising | |
| unpleasant | rising | |
| sickening | rising | |
| nauseating | rising | |
| queasy | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1, ill1
- 4 letters
- sick1, foul1, grim1, vile1
- 5 letters
- nasty2, yucky2
- 6 letters
- queasy2
- 7 letters
- obscene2, fulsome2, mawkish2, noisome, sickish
- 8 letters
- stawsome
- 9 letters
- offensive3, sickening3, repulsive3, revolting3, repugnant3, loathsome2, nauseated4
- 10 letters
- disgusting3, unpleasant3, abominable5, nauseating4
- 11 letters
- distasteful3, unpalatable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (nasty2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- nauséabond
- Italiano
- nauseabondo