nauseant

Questions about nauseant

What does nauseant mean?

nauseant means "a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting".

How many syllables are in nauseant?

nauseant has 3 syllables and divides as na-u-seant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nauseant?

Close synonyms include emetic, vomit, vomitive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nauseant a common word?

nauseant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.