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Definition of Queasy
1. Adjective. Causing or able to cause nausea. "A sickening stench"
Similar to: Unwholesome
Derivative terms: Loathsomeness, Nauseatingness, Nausea, Noisomeness, Offend, Offensiveness, Sickeningness, Vileness
2. Adjective. Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.
Similar to: Ill, Sick
Derivative terms: Nausea, Queasiness, Sickness
3. Adjective. Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety. "An unquiet mind"
Similar to: Troubled
Derivative terms: Anxiousness, Nervousness, Nervousness, Queasiness, Uneasiness
Definition of Queasy
1. a. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
Definition of Queasy
1. Adjective. experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach ¹
2. Adjective. easily troubled; squeamish ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Queasy
1. easily nauseated [adj -SIER, -SIEST] : QUEASILY [adv]
Medical Definition of Queasy
1. 1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish. 2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." "Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms." (Cowper) Origin: Icel. Kweisa pain; cf. Norw. Kveis sickness after a debauch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Queasy
Literary usage of Queasy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1851)
"... it eats nothing, and gives withal an assurance to those partaking of the feast,
whose suspicious natures nurse queasy appetites, that the haunch has not ..."
2. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"490), NE queasy, as far as its etymology is concerned, is a very difficult word.
... Although this may be right, it is curious that the NE form is queasy, ..."
3. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"490), NE queasy, as far as its etymology is concerned, is a very difficult word.
... Although this may be right, it is curious that the NE form is queasy, ..."
4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1876)
"... remarks, " it eats nothing, and gives withal an assurance to those partaking
of the fi-ast, whose suspicious natures nurse queasy appetites, ..."
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