nauseous

adjective

1 the thought of food made her feel nauseous:

sick, nauseated, queasy, bilious, sick to one's stomach, green, green around the gills, ill, unwell, bad;

seasick, carsick, airsick, travel-sick;

informal about to throw up;

North American, informal barfy;

Australian, informal chunderous;

rare qualmish.

2 a nauseous stench | that doesn't mean I have to be involved in this nauseous business:

sickening, nauseating, stomach-turning, stomach-churning, emetic, sickly;

disgusting, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, offensive, loathsome, abhorrent, odious, obnoxious, nasty, foul, vile, appalling, abominable;

North American vomitous;

informal sick-making, ghastly, putrid, horrid, godawful, gross, gut-churning, yucky;

British, informal beastly;

Northern Irish, informal bogging;

Australian, informal chunderous;

vulgar slang crappy;

literary noisome;

archaic disgustful, loathly.

▷antonyms charming, pleasing.