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QUEASY
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Irregular inflected forms: queasier , queasiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Example:
an unquiet mind
Synonyms:
anxious; nervous; queasy; uneasy; unquiet
Classified under:
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Derivation:
queasiness (inability to rest or relax or be still)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Synonyms:
nauseated; nauseous; queasy; sick; sickish
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Derivation:
queasiness (a mild state of nausea)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Causing or able to cause nausea
Example:
a sickening stench
Synonyms:
loathsome; nauseating; nauseous; noisome; offensive; queasy; sickening; vile
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
