Curious, nauseous, suspicious

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'Curious' means both "causing curiosity" and "having curiosity". Likewise, 'nauseous' means both "causing nausea" and "feeling nausea". And likeiwse for 'suspicious'. Are there other adjectives like these? And is there a word for such words?
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Michael Hamm (Email Removed) wrote on 23 Dec 2003:
[nq:1]'Curious' means both "causing curiosity" and "having curiosity". Likewise, 'nauseous' means both "causing nausea" and "feeling nausea". And likeiwse for 'suspicious'. Are there other adjectives like these? And is there a word for such words?[/nq]
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[nq:1]'Curious' means both "causing curiosity" and "having curiosity". Likewise, 'nauseous' means both "causing nausea" and "feeling nausea". And likeiwse for 'suspicious'. Are there other adjectives like these? And is there a word for such words?[/nq]
Isn't the word for "feeling nausea" "nauseated"?
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[nq:2]'Curious' means both "causing curiosity" and "having curiosity". Likewise, 'nauseous' ... like these? And is there a word for such words?[/nq]
[nq:1]Isn't the word for "feeling nausea" "nauseated"?[/nq]
Here's some insight in the usage of "nauseous":

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USAGE NOTE: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean "causing nausea" and that it is incorrect to use it to mean "affected with nausea," as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean "feeling sick," it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its "correct" sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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[nq:2]'Curious' means both "causing curiosity" and "having curiosity". Likewise, 'nauseous' ... like these? And is there a word for such words?[/nq]
[nq:1]Isn't the word for "feeling nausea" "nauseated"?[/nq]
I would say that "nauseated" specifically means 'caused to feel nausea'. That is to say, "nauseated" only applies if there is an external cause (a disgusting odor, for example); I wouldn't say someone was "nauseated" if they were experiencing nausea because of, say, illness.

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