ad nauseam

American  

[ad naw-zee-uhm, -am] / æd ˈnɔ zi əm, -ˌæm /

adverb

1. to a sickening or disgusting degree.

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ad nauseam British  

/ -sɪ-, æd ˈnɔːzɪˌæm /

adverb

1. to a disgusting extent

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ad nauseam Cultural  

1. To go on endlessly; literally, to continue “to seasickness”: “The candidate told us the details of how he overcame his childhood problems ad nauseam.”

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ad nauseam Idioms  

1. To ridiculous excess, to a sickening degree. For example, I wish he'd drop the subject; we have heard about budget cuts ad nauseam. The term, Latin for “to [the point of] nausea,” has been used in English since the early 1600s.

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Etymology

Origin of ad nauseam

< Latin: literally, to seasickness

Example Sentences

So Brown scrapped his normally free-flowing offense to run one play ad nauseam.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

“We have written ad nauseam about how extreme the move in semis has been—in many cases not seen since the dot-com bubble,” writes Jonathan Krinsky, BTIG’s chief market technician.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

In turn, of course, I then made this fennel-and-cheese dish ad nauseam in the ensuing years.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2025

“They can hear me say this ad nauseam, but you all saying this is, I think, very helpful.”

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2024

In Levene’s mind, the four bases were repeated in a defined order: AGCT-AGCT-AGCT-AGCT and so forth ad nauseam.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee