nausea

The word “nausea” has 2 syllables: nau-sea

It's pronounced as /ˈnɔːziə/


What is synonym and antonym for nausea?

In the thesaurus, “nausea” has 44 synonyms and 17 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for nausea along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for nausea

  • abhorrence
  • abomination
  • airsickness
  • allergy
  • altitude sickness
  • antipathy
  • averseness
  • aversion
  • biliousness
  • car sickness
  • detestation
  • disapproval
  • disfavor
  • disgust
  • disinclination
  • dislike
  • disliking
  • displeasure
  • distaste
  • execration
  • hate
  • hatred
  • horror
  • loathing
  • mal de mer
  • morning sickness
  • motion sickness
  • mountain sickness
  • nauseousness
  • odium
  • qualm
  • qualmishness
  • qualms
  • queasiness
  • queerness
  • regurgitation
  • repugnance
  • repulsion
  • retching
  • revulsion
  • seasickness
  • sickness
  • squeamishness
  • vomiting

Antonyms for nausea

  • appetite
  • bent
  • fancy
  • favor
  • fondness
  • like
  • liking
  • love
  • partiality
  • penchant
  • predilection
  • preference
  • propensity
  • relish
  • shine
  • taste
  • use

Meanings of nausea

  • noun
    1. A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.
    2. Strong dislike or disgust.
    3. Motion sickness.

Example Sentences

  • The roller coaster ride left her feeling nausea as she stepped off the platform.
  • He experienced waves of nausea after eating the spoiled food.
  • The medication caused him to develop nausea as a side effect.
  • The strong smell of the seafood market triggered her nausea instantly.
  • Despite her nausea, she forced herself to eat something to settle her stomach.

On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to nausea, such as: abhorrence, abomination, airsickness, allergy, altitude sickness, antipathy, appetite.

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Related Words

abhorred

  • abandoned
  • abhorrent
  • abominated
  • accursed
  • alienated
  • anathematized
  • appalled
  • atrocious
  • avoided
  • awful
  • condemned
  • creepy
  • cursed
  • deplored
  • deprecated
  • despicable
  • despised
  • detested
  • discountenanced
  • disdained
  • disesteemed
  • disfavored
  • disgusting
  • disliked
  • displeased
  • drip
  • dumpy
  • estranged
  • execrable
  • execrated
  • fastidious
  • fed up
  • forgotten
  • full up
  • godawful
  • grody
  • gross
  • grossed out
  • had bellyful
  • had enough
  • had it
  • had it in for
  • hateable
  • hated
  • hateful
  • heinous
  • horrid
  • ignored
  • loathed
  • loser
  • lousy
  • low-down
  • maggot
  • monstrous
  • nauseated
  • nauseous
  • obnoxious
  • odious
  • offensive
  • ostracized
  • out
  • out of favor
  • outraged
  • outrageous
  • overwrought
  • queasy
  • rejected
  • repelled
  • repugnant
  • repulsed
  • repulsive
  • revolted
  • revolting
  • rotten
  • satiated
  • scandalized
  • scorned
  • shocking
  • shunned
  • sick
  • sick and tired of
  • sick of
  • sorry
  • squeamish
  • tired
  • turned off
  • unaccepted
  • unappreciated
  • unattractive
  • unbeloved
  • uncared-for
  • undesirable
  • unfavorite
  • unhappy
  • unloved
  • unpopular
  • unvalued
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • up to here
  • vile
  • weary
  • weird
  • wimpy

abhorrent

  • abominable
  • appalling
  • arrogant
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • barbarous
  • bold-faced
  • brackish
  • brash
  • brassy
  • brazen
  • catty
  • cavalier
  • cheeky
  • cocky
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • cruel
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • detestable
  • disagreeable
  • discourteous
  • disdainful
  • disgusting
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • disrespectful
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • foul
  • fresh
  • frightful
  • fulsome
  • ghastly
  • grewsome
  • grim
  • grisly
  • gross
  • gruesome
  • hard
  • hateful
  • haughty
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • hifalutin
  • high-handed
  • high-hat
  • highfalutin
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • impertinent
  • impudent
  • insolent
  • loathsome
  • lofty
  • lordly
  • lousy
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • mean
  • miserable
  • monstrous
  • nasty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • pompous
  • pretentious
  • prideful
  • rancid
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • sassy
  • saucy
  • scandalous
  • scornful
  • self-important
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sniffish
  • snobbish
  • spiteful
  • supercilious
  • superior
  • terrible
  • ugly
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • undesirable
  • ungodly
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unpleasant
  • unsavory
  • unspeakable
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • uppish
  • uppity
  • upsetting
  • vile

abominable

  • abhorrent
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • barbarous
  • base
  • beastly
  • brackish
  • contemptible
  • cursed
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • disagreeable
  • disgusting
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • foul
  • frightful
  • fulsome
  • ghastly
  • grewsome
  • grim
  • grisly
  • grody
  • gross
  • gruesome
  • hairy
  • hard
  • hateful
  • heinous
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • miserable
  • monstrous
  • nasty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • rancid
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • rotten
  • scandalous
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sleazy
  • stinking
  • terrible
  • ugly
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • undesirable
  • ungodly
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unpleasant
  • unsavory
  • unspeakable
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • vile
  • wretched

bad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abomination
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acute
  • addled
  • admirable
  • adverse
  • afflicted
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • ailing
  • airsick
  • amiss
  • anathema
  • anguished
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • arch
  • atrocious
  • atrociously
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • awe-inspiring
  • awful
  • awfully
  • babyish
  • badass
  • badly
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • balky
  • baneful
  • banned
  • bargain-basement
  • barred
  • base
  • bastard
  • beastly
  • below par
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blemished
  • blue
  • broken
  • brokenhearted
  • brummagem
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • cancer
  • canker
  • careless
  • carsick
  • cast down
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • challenged
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheeky
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • childish
  • coarse
  • comfortless
  • common
  • condemned
  • conscience-stricken
  • contagious
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contrary
  • contrite
  • cool
  • corroded
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • crestfallen
  • criminal
  • crippled
  • critical
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumbled
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curdled
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • cut-rate
  • damaged
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • damnably
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • decay
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decomposed
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defaced
  • defective
  • defiant
  • deficient
  • deficiently
  • defiled
  • defiling
  • degeneracy
  • degenerate
  • degenerated
  • dejected
  • deleterious
  • delinquent
  • deplorable
  • deplorably
  • depraved
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • deprecating
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • derogatory
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • despondent
  • destructive
  • deteriorated
  • detestable
  • detestably
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • devious
  • diabolism
  • difficult
  • dirty
  • disabled
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disallowed
  • disappointed
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • disdainful
  • diseased
  • disfigured
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartened
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disintegrated
  • disintegrating
  • dismal
  • disobedient
  • disobliging
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disparaging
  • dispirited
  • displeasing
  • disreputable
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • dizzy
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreadful
  • dreadfully
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • egregious
  • egregiously
  • el cheapo
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elfish
  • enormity
  • envious
  • errant
  • erring
  • erroneous
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • execrably
  • extreme
  • fake
  • fallen
  • fallible
  • fatal
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • fermented
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • fierce
  • flagrant
  • flagrantly
  • flashy
  • flawed
  • forbidden
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fragile
  • frail
  • from hunger
  • froward
  • funereal
  • galling
  • gangrenous
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • ghastly
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • godawful
  • grand
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
  • grim
  • gross
  • grossly
  • guilty
  • half-assed
  • halt
  • hangdog
  • harmed
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavyhearted
  • heinousness
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrendously
  • horrible
  • horribly
  • horrid
  • horrifically
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ill
  • ill-behaved
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • illegal
  • immature
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impish
  • impolite
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • improper
  • impudent
  • impure
  • in pain
  • inadequate
  • inadequately
  • inappropriately
  • incapacitated
  • incomplete
  • inconsiderate
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • incorrectly
  • indecency
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indifferent
  • indisposed
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • infamous
  • infantile
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • inferiorly
  • infernal
  • infirm
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injured
  • injurious
  • inoperative
  • insidious
  • insolent
  • insufficient
  • insufficiently
  • insurgent
  • intense
  • interdicted
  • intimidating
  • intolerably
  • intractable
  • invalid
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • irritating
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jejune
  • jeopardizing
  • joyless
  • junky
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • killer
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knavish
  • lachrymose
  • lacking
  • lackluster
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lethal
  • libertine
  • light-headed
  • loathsome
  • loose
  • lousily
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • marred
  • meager
  • meagerly
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • meanly
  • mediocre
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • meretricious
  • mighty
  • mildewy
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserably
  • miserly
  • moldering
  • moldy
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • mutinous
  • nasty
  • naughtily
  • naughty
  • nauseated
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • niggardly
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonbinding
  • nonvalid
  • noxious
  • nugatory
  • null
  • null and void
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • obstreperous
  • odious
  • odiously
  • off
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • on the blink
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • ostentatious
  • out of sorts
  • outlawed
  • painful
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perverse
  • perversion
  • perverted
  • pervertedness
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pixieish
  • plaintive
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • poor
  • poorly
  • poxy
  • prankish
  • prejudicial
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • puerile
  • punk
  • putrefied
  • putrefying
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • rank
  • rascally
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reprehensibly
  • reprobate
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • restive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • risky
  • roguish
  • rot
  • rotten
  • rottenly
  • rotting
  • rowdy
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rueful
  • ruffianly
  • ruinous
  • run-down
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sassy
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • scantily
  • scantly
  • scanty
  • scathing
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scrofulous
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • scurvy
  • seamy
  • seasick
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • selfish
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabbily
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shocking
  • shoddily
  • shoddy
  • short
  • showy
  • sick
  • sickened
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sin
  • sinful
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpily
  • skimpy
  • sleazily
  • sleazy
  • slipshod
  • sly
  • snakelike
  • snide
  • snotty
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • sour
  • soured
  • sourish
  • spare
  • sparely
  • spiteful
  • splashy
  • spoiled
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • stingily
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • symptomatic
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tacky
  • tainted
  • tawdry
  • tearful
  • terrible
  • terribly
  • thoughtless
  • threatening
  • tough
  • toxic
  • transgressing
  • trashily
  • trashy
  • troubled
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trumpery
  • turned
  • ugly
  • ultracheap
  • unacceptable
  • unacceptably
  • unauthorized
  • unbearably
  • unbecoming
  • unclean
  • uncongenial
  • uncontrollable
  • uncouth
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • uneasy
  • unethical
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • ungovernable
  • unhappy
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlawful
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unmannerly
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unquiet
  • unrighteous
  • unruly
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactorily
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unspeakably
  • unsuitably
  • untoward
  • unwelcome
  • unwell
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • vilely
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitiated
  • vitriolic
  • void
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wack
  • waggish
  • wailing
  • wanting
  • wayward
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weeping
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • woozy
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wretchedly
  • wrong
  • wrongheaded
  • yucky
  • yukky

fag

  • annoy
  • attack
  • back
  • bang away
  • bankrupt
  • be disregarded
  • be neglected
  • bear down
  • bedraggle
  • biri
  • bore
  • break
  • brood
  • burden
  • burn out
  • bush
  • bust
  • butt
  • cancer stick
  • cause ennui
  • cig
  • cloy
  • coffin nail
  • collapse
  • conk out
  • crawl
  • cubeb
  • cultivate
  • debilitate
  • decline
  • deject
  • deplete
  • depress
  • desire
  • despond
  • deteriorate
  • die on vine
  • dig in
  • disable
  • disgust
  • dishearten
  • dispirit
  • displease
  • distress
  • do in
  • do up
  • drain
  • draw
  • drive
  • droop
  • drop
  • drowse
  • drudge
  • dwindle
  • ebb
  • eke out
  • endeavor
  • enervate
  • enfeeble
  • ennui
  • essay
  • exasperate
  • exercise
  • exert
  • exert oneself
  • exhaust
  • fade
  • fag out
  • fail
  • faint
  • fall off
  • fatigue
  • fizzle
  • fizzle out
  • flag
  • fold
  • frazzle
  • gasper
  • give out
  • glut
  • go soft
  • go stale
  • go to pieces
  • grieve
  • grind
  • grow tired
  • grow weary
  • grub
  • hanker
  • harass
  • have had enough
  • hump
  • hunger
  • hustle
  • impoverish
  • irk
  • irritate
  • jade
  • kill
  • knock out
  • knuckle down
  • labor
  • languish
  • leave one cold
  • long
  • lose interest
  • make discontented
  • moil
  • nauseate
  • oppress
  • outwear
  • overburden
  • overdo
  • overexert
  • overextend
  • overfatigue
  • overstrain
  • overtax
  • overtire
  • overwork
  • pain
  • pall
  • peter out
  • pine
  • pitch in
  • plague
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug
  • plug away
  • poop
  • poop out
  • pour it on
  • prostrate
  • puff
  • put out
  • put to sleep
  • reefer
  • repine
  • rot
  • run ragged
  • sag
  • sap
  • scrabble
  • scratch
  • sicken
  • sigh
  • sink
  • slave
  • slog
  • smoke
  • snivel
  • sorrow
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • succumb
  • suck dry
  • suffer
  • sweat
  • sweat blood
  • take
  • take it out of
  • tax
  • tend
  • tire
  • tire out
  • tobacco
  • toil
  • travail
  • trudge
  • try
  • try the patience of
  • tucker
  • tucker out
  • tug
  • use up
  • vex
  • wade
  • wash out
  • waste
  • waste away
  • weaken
  • wear
  • wear down
  • wear out
  • wear to a frazzle
  • weary
  • weigh
  • wilt
  • wither
  • work
  • work oneself to the bone
  • worry
  • yawn
  • yearn

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