nauseated

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.

Confusables Note

See nauseous.

Other Words From

• un·nause·ated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of nauseated¹

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

Example Sentences

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

As any Democrat who felt nauseated that night when the early vote from Miami-Dade County dropped will remember, Trump won Florida without much difficulty.

From Slate

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

From Salon

The dress was so enormous that it required at least seven handlers to accompany the rapper, who said the gown was heavier than her and so big that it was giving her a headache and making her nauseated.

From Los Angeles Times

So why would the committee members publish a document so likely to leave millions of Americans nauseated?

From Los Angeles Times