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queasy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective queasy has 3 senses
- queasy(s = adj.all) loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, sickening, vile - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
- queasy(s = adj.all) nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit; Array Derived form noun queasiness1
- queasy(s = adj.all) anxious, nervous, uneasy, unquiet - causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" Derived form noun queasiness2
CIDE DICTIONARY
queasy, a. [Icel. kweisa pain; cf. Norw. kveis sickness after a debauch.].
- Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish. [1913 Webster]
- Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. Shak. [1913 Webster]"Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
queasy, adj. (-ier, -iest)
1 a (of a person) feeling nausea. b (of a person's stomach) easily upset, weak of digestion.
2 (of the conscience etc.) overscrupulous, tender.
1 a (of a person) feeling nausea. b (of a person's stomach) easily upset, weak of digestion.
2 (of the conscience etc.) overscrupulous, tender.
Derivative
queasily adv. queasiness n.
Etymology
ME queysy, coisy perh. f. AF & OF, rel. to OF coisir hurt
THESAURUS
queasy
airsick, apprehensive, barfy, bilious, carsick, difficult, discomfited, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fishy, fuss-budgety, fussy, groggy, hard to please, hesitant, ill, ill at ease, indecisive, nauseated, nauseous, nervous, open, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, precarious, pukish, puky, qualmish, qualmy, queer, seasick, shady, sick, squeamish, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettled, woozy, worriedROGET THESAURUS
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Dislike
N dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency, reluctance, backwardness, repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing, averseness, aversation, aversion, abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror, mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror, hatred, detestation, hate, animosity, hydrophobia, canine madness, byssa, xenophobia, sickener, gall and wormwood, shuddering, cold sweat, disliking, averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse, shy of, sick of, out of conceit with, disinclined, heartsick, dogsick, queasy, disliked, uncared for, unpopular, out of favor, repulsive, repugnant, repellant, abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous, loathsome, loathful, offensive, disgusting, disagreeable c, (painful), usque ad nauseam, Int, faugh!, foh!, ugh!, non libet.Fastidiousness
N fastidiousness, nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise, epicurism, omnia suspendens naso, epicure, gourmet, prudery, fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned, squeasy, queasy, hard to please, difficult to please, querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous, censorious, hypercritical, overcritical, noli me tangere.
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