nauseant

Nauseant means producing nausea—a feeling of sickness in your stomach, as if you might vomit.

People can experience nausea from food that has upset their stomach, from the side effects of medications, or from a number of other conditions that affect the stomach, such as seasickness, motion sickness, morning sickness, carsickness, and anxiety. The word nauseating is much more commonly used to describe such things.

Nauseant, on the other hand, is typically used in a medical context, such as to describe a medication or treatment that has nausea as a known side effect.

The word nauseant can also be as a noun in this context to refer to such medications or to other things that can cause nausea.

The word antinauseant can be used as a noun to refer to things like medications or other substances that are intended to relieve nausea, or as an adjective to describe such things.

Example: The patient has gastrointestinal issues, so I avoided prescribing any nauseants.

The first records of the word nauseant come from the 1800s. It is ultimately thought to derive from the Greek nausíā, meaning “seasickness,” from naûs, meaning “ship” (the same root is the basis of the word nautical). The suffix -ant is used to form adjectives and nouns.

Nausea can be caused by very different things, including bad food, inner ear problems, and stress. However, describing something as nauseant or calling something a nauseant is almost always done in a medical context. Antinauseants are used to help people avoid nausea, such as during chemotherapy treatments.

What are some other forms related to nauseant?

• antinauseant (noun, adjective)
• nausea (noun)

What are some synonyms for nauseant?

• nauseating

What are some words that share a root or word element with nauseant? 

• nauseous
• nauseate
• nauseated
• nautical

What are some words that often get used in discussing nauseant?

• sick
• stomach
• vomit
• throw up
• medication
• substance
• chemotherapy

The word nauseant is typically only used in a medical context.

Nausea gone. Anti-nauseants make me sleepy though. Moving on from ginger tea (bleh) to licorice-y throat formula tea. And possibly a nap.

— Brenda Gerritsma (@BrendaGerritsma) February 11, 2010

It is a cruel world that has horrible tasting anti-nauseant medication.

— digitrev, but like, subtly spookier somehow (@digitrev) September 23, 2013

I’m so sorry to hear that you’re another person so badly affected by nausea. Not even the anti-nauseants for chemo have helped him. It’s been a tough go nhecsays the nausea is worse than the chronic pain for him.

— Isabel Jordan (@seastarbatita) August 29, 2018

Is nauseant used correctly in the following sentence? 

Try to avoid consuming any nauseant substances.