squeamish
/ˈskwiːmɪʃ/
squeamish adjective: easily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
Adjective
squeamish (comparative more squeamish, superlative most squeamish)
- Easily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
- He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish at the sight of blood.
- Averse or reluctant.
squeamish meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
squeamish in Urdu
- باحیا, بےمیل
squeamish in Bengali
- বমি বমি ভাবগ্রস্ত, অতিসংবেদনশীল
squeamish in Malayalam
- nervous, easily nauseated, (be squeamish about) be put off by
- ക്ഷണവികാരിയായ, എളുപ്പം അറപ്പനുഭവപ്പെടുന്ന, ഓക്കാനമുണ്ടാകുന്ന, വമനേച്ഛയുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, പെട്ടെന്നു ചെടിപ്പുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, വേഗം അസ്വസ്ഥമാകുന്ന
- principled, scrupulous, fastidious
- നന്മയുള്ള, സന്മാർഗ്ഗനിരതമായ, നിഷ്കർഷയുള്ള, ധാർമ്മികമായ, ബഹുമാനപ്പെട്ട, ബഹുമാന്യമായ
squeamish in Kannada
- ಗೊಣಗುತ್ತಿರುವ, ಕುಸಪಿಷ್ಟೆಯ, ವಿಪರೀತ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮವಾದ, ಯಾವುದನ್ನೂ ಒಪ್ಪದ, ಮೆಚ್ಚಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಸುಳುವಾಗಿ ಕೆರಳುವ
More languagesFewer languages
- squeamish in Persian
- نازکنارنجی nāzoknārenjī
Forms of squeamish
| comparative | more squeamish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most squeamish |
| alternative form (dialectal) | sweamish |
| alternative form (dialectal) | swaimish |
| alternative form (obsolete) | squeimish |
| alternative form (obsolete) | squemish |
| alternative form (obsolete) | squeamous |
Origin of squeamish
Origin obscure. Likely a merger of earlier squeamous (“squeamish”), from Middle English squaimous, queimous, from Anglo-Norman escoimus, escoymous, of unknown origin; and dialectal English sweamish, sweemish (“faint, squeamish”), from sweam (“dizziness, sudden qualm of sickness”) and dialectal sweem (“to swoon, be faint, be overcome, feel sick”), from Middle English swemen (“to grieve, make suffer, be faint of heart”), from Old English *swǣman (“to grieve, trouble, afflict”). If so, then related to swim (“to be dizzy, swoon”). See also sweam.
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Questions about squeamish
- What does squeamish mean?
- Squeamish means easily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
- What is squeamish in Urdu?
- Squeamish in Urdu is باحیا, بےمیل. See Squeamish meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is squeamish?
- Squeamish is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce squeamish?
- Squeamish is pronounced /ˈskwiːmɪʃ/.
Words near squeamish in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: squeamish (page history and authors); squeamish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squeamish (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squeamish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); squeamish (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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