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nauseated

/ˈnɔziˌeɪtəd/
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When you're nauseated, you're queasy, or you feel like you might vomit. If you have the flu, you'll probably spend a day or two feeling nauseated.

Queasy. Sick to your stomach. Barfy. All of these describe the uncomfortable feeling of being nauseated. Riding on a roller coaster three times in a row could make you feel nauseated, and if you sat down and ate an entire three-layer birthday cake by yourself, you'd definitely be nauseated by the time you finished. The Latin root word nausea originally described seasickness.

Definitions of nauseated
  1. adjective
    feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
    synonyms: nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish
    ill, sick
    affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
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Commonly confused words

nauseated / nauseous

If you’re nauseated you’re about to throw up, if you’re nauseous, you’re a toxic funk and you’re going to make someone else puke. These words are used interchangeably so often that it makes word nerds feel nauseated!

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