Read full poem →Among my father’s folk? My father’s house
Was narrow and his fields were nauseous.
Dictionary Entry
Feeling sick to your stomach, like you might vomit, or something that causes disgust.
In a Sentence
“The roller coaster ride was so intense that it made many people feel nauseous.”
Origin
From Latin 'nausea' (sea-sickness), from Greek 'naus' (ship).
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Poetry examples for “nauseous”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Than all the drubs I in Rose-Alley bore;
This shows my nauseous, mercenary pen,
Would praise the vilest and the worst of men.
Read full poem →Fed me banana gas through a frog-mask. The nauseous vault
Boomed with bad dreams and the Jovian voices of surgeons.
Read full poem →half satisfied,
One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground
before me,