Word Meanings - SQUEASY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous. Bp. Earle.

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• 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
• EARLET
  An earring. The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24
• FASTIDIOUS
  Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young. Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. --
• QUEASY
  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.
• SCRUPULOUS
  1. Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker. 2. Careful;
• EARLES PENNY
  Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.
• EARLESS
  Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. Pope.
• FEARLESS
  Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.
• UNSCRUPULOUS
  Not scrupulous; unprincipled. -- Un*scru"pu*lous*ly, adv. -- Un*scru"pu*lous*ness, n.
• SQUEASY
  Queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous. Bp. Earle.
• ICY-PEARLED
  Spangled with ice. Mounting up in icy-pearled car. Milton.
• TEARLESS
  Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.
• OVERSCRUPULOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.
• OVERSCRUPULOUS
  Scrupulous to excess.