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vomitous

adjective

vomitous is an adjective meaning “Characteristic of, or causing one to vomit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-M-I-T-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vomitous mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    USCharacteristic of, or causing one to vomit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of vomitous

  • more vomitous comparative
  • most vomitous superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vomitous?

Vomitous appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Vomitous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishvómico

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does vomitous come from?

From vomit + -ous.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).