queasy

4 definitions found

queasy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Queasy \Quea"sy\, a. [Icel. kweisa pain; cf. Norw. kveis
     sickness after a debauch.]
     1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to
        vomit; qualmish.
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     2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed;
        unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." --Shak.
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              Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms.
                                                    --Cowper.
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queasy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  queasy
      adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
             "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn:
             nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy,
             loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
      2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated,
         nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
      3: 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" [syn: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy,
         unquiet]

queasy - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  QUEASY
  
     An early system on the IBM 701.
  
     [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
  
     (1995-01-25)
  

queasy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "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