Loathsome vs Nauseous - What's the difference?
loathsome | nauseous |
Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
Afflicted with nausea; sick.
* 2010 , Tom Smith, The Guardian , 4 Sep 2010:
As adjectives the difference between loathsome and nauseous
is that loathsome is highly offensive; sickening, abominable while nauseous is causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.loathsome
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "loathsome" is often applied: disease, creature, thing, person, man, woman, dungeon, place, world, smell, act.External links
* * *nauseous
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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 .