Nauseous

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam Posted by Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, Managing Director, Editorial, Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.



Nauseous:

What you think it means: to feel sick or that one may vomit

What it actually means: to cause nausea

When you eat too much ice cream and then say, "Oh, I feel nauseous," you're not saying you feel sick, you are saying that you are causing people around you to feel sick.

The correct way to say you feel sick is to say, "I am nauseated."