nauseously

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adverb

In a nauseous manner.

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Meanings

adverbnauseously (comparative more nauseously, superlative most nauseously)

comparative more nauseously · superlative most nauseously

  1. In a nauseous manner.

    Perhaps it’s more accurate to say I’m nauseously optimistic, because, to be candid, I go into the next five weeks feeling a bit sick to my stomach.

    2024 October 1, Robert Reich, “Donald Trump is gaining on Kamala Harris in the polls. I have some theories why”, in The Guardian
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    Otherwise, the films of Cassavetes were always more praised than seen and some of the fulsome tributes to him when he died in 1989 were nauseously hypocritical.

    2000 July 5, “The naked truth”, in The Guardian

Origin

From nauseous + -ly.

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APA

nauseously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nauseously

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“nauseously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nauseously. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nauseously,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nauseously.

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