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nausea

/ˈnɔːziə/noun

उच्चारण नॉज़िअ

मतली, जी मिचलाना

Core word

noun
  1. 1

    [U]

    the feeling that you have when you want to vomit

    मतली, जी मिचलाना

    • Travel by bus gives her nausea.
    • Radhika felt nausea during the boat ride and had to sit down.
    • She felt waves of nausea on the winding mountain road.
    + 2 more examples
    • The medicine may cause nausea in some people.
    • Morning nausea is common in the early months of pregnancy.

    Synonyms sickness queasiness biliousness travel sickness

  2. 2

    [U]

    a feeling of disgust

    घृणा, वितृष्णा

    • a feeling of nausea at the cruelty
    • The images of destruction filled him with nausea.
    • He read about the scandal with a growing sense of nausea.
    + 2 more examples
    • The cruelty of the story filled her with nausea.
    • A feeling of nausea came over me as I watched the news.

    Synonyms disgust revulsion repugnance loathing

◇Word family
≈Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms

sickness queasiness biliousness travel sickness disgust revulsion repugnance loathing

AaSpelling

nau·sea

With -au- and -sea (not 'naucea' or 'nausia').

-au- और अंत में -sea ('naucea' या 'nausia' गलत है)।

?Which word?

Keep apart nauseous (feeling sick) and nauseating (causing sickness).

Nauseous (मतली महसूस करने वाला) और nauseating (मतली पैदा करने वाला) को अलग रखिए।

“Collocations, idioms and sayings

Ad nauseam (Latin, 'to the point of sickness'; repeated so often that it becomes boring: 'He talked about his success ad nauseam').

Idiom 'ad nauseam' (Latin, 'उल्टी होने तक'; इतनी बार दोहराया कि उबाऊ हो जाए: 'He talked about his success ad nauseam')।

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One-word substitution

Sickness caused by travel is motion sickness; at sea seasickness; in a plane airsickness.

यात्रा से होने वाली मतली motion sickness; समुद्र में seasickness; विमान में airsickness।