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Word Meanings - QUEASY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish. 2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." Shak. Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms. Cowper.

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  • COWPER'S GLANDS
    Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • NAUSEANT
    A substance which produces nausea.
  • VOMITORY
    Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • QUESTIONIST
    A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
  • QUESTIONABLENESS
    The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • TICKLISH
    1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. Bacon. 2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected;
  • VOMITO
    The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
  • STOMACHAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • AFFECTER
    One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
  • AFFECTIVE
    1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
  • STOMACHY
    Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
  • SQUEAMISH
    Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish. Hudibras. His muse
  • VOMIT
    To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
  • AFFECTIONATED
    Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
  • INCLINING
    See 3
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
  • INDELICATE
    Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse;
  • HIGH-STOMACHED
    Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
  • MISAFFECTED
    Ill disposed.

 

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