nauseated

American  

adjective

1. affected with nausea; nauseous.

   The bumpy plane ride made me very nauseated.

2. filled with disgust.

   I feel nauseated when I read about corruption in city government.

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Usage

What does nauseated mean? To be nauseated is to have nausea—to feel sick in your stomach, as if you might vomit. The word nauseous is more commonly used to mean the same thing.Nauseated is commonly used as an adjective, but it can also be the past tense of the verb nauseate, meaning to cause to feel nausea.The adjective nauseating means causing nausea (nauseous can also be used to mean this, but that’s much less common).The word nausea can also be used in a figurative way meaning a feeling of disgust, revulsion, or repulsion, and nauseated can be used to describe people who feel this way, meaning about the same thing as disgusted, as in I feel nauseated by their cruelty. Example: I’m not sure what has made me more nauseated—the disgusting food or the server’s disgusting comments.

Commonly Confused

See nauseous.

Other Word Forms

• unnauseated adjective

Etymology

Origin of nauseated

First recorded in 1650–1660, for an earlier sense; nauseat(e) ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

And while he boasts of his strong aesthetic sense—trained as a physicist, he left the field in the 1970s “nauseated” by the “hideously ugly” ideas then coming into vogue—his eye is suspect.

From The Wall Street Journal

At times, the cousin recalled, he felt dizzy and nauseated.

From Los Angeles Times

People who were nauseated by the drugs were more likely to report increased food waste.

From Science Daily

Turning to look at him — an almost-stranger I was about to embark on a coffee date with — I asked, “Is this in case I get nauseated?”

From Los Angeles Times

The effect can be vertiginous—so the way people avoid being nauseated is by trying to ignore the dissonance.

From Salon