Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Nauseous or nauseated?

Nauseous or nauseated? Nauseous: adjective - sick, nauseated; offensive to taste or smell; loathsome,disgusting, repulsive.
Nauseate: verb - become affected with nausea, feeldisgusted or sick; reject food with loathing; loathe or abhor; cause nausea oraversion, create loathing.
Basically; if you're feeling 'nauseous'(adjective), you're feeling sick.However, if some substance or event is 'nauseous', it is something that causessickness and disgust.To be nauseated (verb) is to feel sick, to be affected bydisgust or loathing. However, if YOU cause the disgust, etc., you are beingnauseating; i.e. you are the cause of the sickness or aversion of others.
As is so often the case inEnglish, the distinction is nice and therefore not always readily seen.
'The pervading stink of rawsewage following the flooding caused many people to feel nauseous.' (adjective)
'Fred was nauseated by thereports of child molestation amongst the Catholic clergy.' (verb)
'For much of the crossing,Johnson was nauseated; his sea-sickness lasting until the vessel docked in calmwaters.' (verb)
Pic: Across the Bay to Bridlington, East Yorkshire.