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queasy

/ˈkwiː.zi/

queasy adjective: experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.

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Adjective

queasy (comparative queasier, superlative queasiest)

  1. Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
    • She was in the middle of a gigantic breakfast of coffee and piles of toast, eggs and bacon and a tall glass of milk. It made him queasy to see all that food.1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 75
    Synonyms:
    nauseated
  2. Easily troubled; squeamish.

queasy meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

queasy in Urdu

درد شکم میں مبتلا, قے آور, وہمی, وسواسی

queasy in Bengali

বমি বমি ভাব, অস্বস্তি

queasy in Malayalam

bilious, nauseous, nauseated
ഓക്കാനിക്കുന്ന, മനംപിരട്ടലുള്ള, വമനേച്ഛയുള്ള, പിത്തംവളർത്തുന്ന, ഛർദ്ദിക്കുന്ന, രോഗാവസ്ഥയിലായ

queasy in Kannada

ಹೊಟ್ಟೆತೊಳಸುವ, ಓಕರಿಕೆ ಬರುವಂತಿರುವ, ವಾಂತಿಬರುವ, ಓಕರಿಕೆಯ

Synonyms of queasy

Forms of queasy

comparativequeasier
superlativequeasiest
alternative formqueazy
alternative formqueezy
alternative formqueesy

Origin of queasy

From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa (“boil”) ( > Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier (“to wound, hurt, make uneasy”).

Words formed from queasy

Words that rhyme with queasy

Questions about queasy

What does queasy mean?
Queasy means experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
What is queasy in Urdu?
Queasy in Urdu is درد شکم میں مبتلا, قے آور, وہمی. See Queasy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is queasy?
Queasy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce queasy?
Queasy is pronounced /ˈkwiː.zi/.

Words near queasy in the dictionary

  1. queasier
  2. queasiest
  3. queasily
  4. queasiness
  5. queasinesses
  6. queasy
  7. queazen
  8. queazens
  9. queazier
  10. queaziest
  11. queazy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: queasy (page history and authors); queasy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); queasy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); queasy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); queasy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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