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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Nauseated vs nauseous
what is the correct useage of nauseous and nauseated in a sentence
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People will tell you that if you feel nausea, you are nauseated, and that nauseous can only mean "causing a feeling of nausea. According to Merriam-Webster, those people are wrong. com/English/nauseating ] and that in sense 2 [ affected with nausea or disgust] it is an error for nauseated are mistaken.
- People will tell you that if you feel nausea, you are nauseated, and that nauseous can only mean "causing a feeling of nausea.
- According to Merriam-Webster, those people are wrong.
- com/English/nauseating ] and that in sense 2 [ affected with nausea or disgust] it is an error for nauseated are mistaken.
- Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent.
- Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating.
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People will tell you that if you feel nausea, you are nauseated, and that nauseous can only mean "causing a feeling of nausea. According to Merriam-Webster, those people are wrong. See this usage note from www.m-w.com for nauseous:
usage Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 [causi
usage Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 [causi
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I can't argue with GG, especially while she is supported by M-Webster. However, in my own personal usage I make a distinction between the two words. I guess a good compromise would be to use 'nauseating' where I would normally use 'nauseous'.
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Indeed. If it makes you feel any better, I looked it up so I could (in fact) show the difference and got hit with the usage note, apparently written specifically for me.
You need to realize that the people who are convinced that "nauseous" can mean ONLY causing nausea may well make what they think it a smart comment after you say "I feel nauseous" by saying something like "Do you often
You need to realize that the people who are convinced that "nauseous" can mean ONLY causing nausea may well make what they think it a smart comment after you say "I feel nauseous" by saying something like "Do you often
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