Distasteful vs Nauseous - What's the difference?
distasteful | nauseous | Synonyms |
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
Afflicted with nausea; sick.
* 2010 , Tom Smith, The Guardian , 4 Sep 2010:
Distasteful is a synonym of nauseous.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and nauseous
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while nauseous is causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.distasteful
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Antonyms
* pleasant, pleasingnauseous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- And then what proper person can be partial / To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
- Is it a myth that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics? I often do and haven't felt remotely nauseous .