Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable)To a nauseating or sickening degree.

    bis zum Geht-nicht-mehr

    to a sickening extent

  2. (not comparable)Having been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome.

    The internet really is just nothing more than the same 3 sites sharing each others stuff ad nauseam

    A drunk person was repeating the same old story ad nauseam.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. He talked my ear off ad nauseam.

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  2. We've already talked about the matter ad nauseam.

    deWir haben schon bis zum Erbrechen über die Sache gesprochen. — al_ex_an_der

Translations

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By meaning 1
to a sickening degree:

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad nauseam, from ad (“to”) + nauseam (“sea-sickness, sickne

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad nauseam, from ad (“to”) + nauseam (“sea-sickness, sickness, nausea”), accusative of nausea.

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