queasy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: quea=sy

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.

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, worried

ROGET THESAURUS

queasy

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.