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

What Scripture doesn’t command, ad nauseam or otherwise, is the coercion of other people to do those things or to pay for them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Ohtani’s penchant for delivering on command is something that has been discussed ad nauseam — I wrote about it again after Ohtani homered in an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants four days earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

Vance's tendency to whine ad nauseam has not gone unnoticed.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

“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