Qualm

Definition: Qualm

Qualm

Noun

1. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action.

2. A mild state of nausea.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "qualm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Etymology: Qualm \Qualm\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression cwealm death, slaughter, pestilence, akin to Old Saxon Old High German. qualm. See Quail to cower.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Qualm

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Fear

Noun: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; Adjective: solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze; mistrust; (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation; (irresolution).

Unbelief Doubt

Doubt; (uncertainty); skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust, mistrust, cynicism; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi.

Unwillingness

Scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation; (irresolution); fastidiousness.

Crosswords: Qualm

German (fug, fume, smoke), Vietnamese (conscience).

Music

• Without the Slightest Qualm (Us) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "qualm": qualm of homesickness ♦ water qualm. Additional references.

Albanian

trazirë (bewilderment, commotion, convulsion, disorder, dustup, fuss, hustle, outbreak, pother, queasiness, queasy, riot, ruction, shindy, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), e përzier (feeling of nausea, qualmishness, queasiness, queasy, spew), dyshim (distrust, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, misgiving, query, suspicion, suspiciousness), brejtje (corrosion, crunch, edacity, gnawing, nibble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقس, ‏وخز الضمير (compunction), ‏غثيان (disgust, nausea, queasiness, sickness, squeamishness), ‏تهوع, ‏اخذ, ‏إمساك (abstention, hold, parsimony), ‏إحساس مفاجئ بمرض, ‏إرتياب مفاجئ, ‏إشمئزاز (abhorrence, horror, loathing, nausea, obsession, pout, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, sway). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стеснение (abashment, constraint, stenosis, uneasiness), угризение (compunction, remorse, twinge), скрупули (scruple), колебание (demur, dubiety, falter, faltering, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hovel, indecision, oscillation, quandary, scruple, vacillation, variation, wabble, wavering, wobble), гадене (nausea, queasiness, queerness, retch, retching, sickness), опасение (apprehension, contemplation, fear, misgiving, uneasiness), моментно колебание, малодушие (cowardice, yellow), безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry), пристъп на малодушие, прилошаване (sinking). (various references)

Chinese 

疑虑. (various references)

Czech

slabost (debility, faintness, feebleness, frailty, impotence, infirmity, invalidity, thinness, weak spot, weakness), skrupule (scruples), pochyba (doubt, uncertainty), nevolnost (malaise, nausea, qualmishness). (various references)

Farsi 

ناخوشی همه جاگیر (Pestilence), حالت تهوع (Nausea), تردید (Doubt, Hang, Hesitancy, Indecision, Query, Scruple, Skepticism, Suspicion, Uncertainty, Vibration), عدم اطمینان (Misgiving), بیم (Awe, Care, Dread, Misgiving, Phobia, Scare, Scruple, Scrupulosity). (various references)

French

scrupule, nausée (queasiness), malaise (queasiness), inquiétude, doute (query, question), appréhension. (various references)

German

übelkeit (morning sickness, nausea, queasiness, rankness, sickness, squeamishness, undesirability). (various references)

Greek 

συνειδητόσ (conscious), ναυτία (nausea, nauseousness, seasickness, travel sickness), ενδοιασμόσ (compunction, demur, diffidence, scruple), αναγούλα (nausea, queasiness, seasickness, sea-sickness, sickliness), τύψη (compunction, remorse, scruple), δισταγμόσ (demur, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, scruple). (various references)

Hebrew 

� קיפת מצפון (compunction, scruple), � קיפת לב (heartbeat, remorse, repentance). (various references)

Hungarian

aggály (anxiety, query, scruple, solicitousness, solicitude). (various references)

Indonesian

rasa cemas. (various references)

Italian

nausea (disgust, feel sick, nausea, queasiness, sickness), esitazione (demur, haw, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, shilly shally), apprensione (anxiety, apprehension, misgiving, suspense). (various references)

Manx

taaue (inert, motionless; unemployed, out of work; retch, passive, quiescent, squeam), neuaashid (awkwardness, discontentedness, grievance, malaise), drogh-ourys (apprehension, misgiving, qualmish). (various references)

Pig Latin

almquay

Portuguese

vertigem (dizziness, giddiness, maziness, stagger, swim, vertigo), tontura (dizziness, giddiness, maziness, stagger, swim, vertigo), sensação de enjôo, náusea (queasiness), enjôo (motion sickness, nausea, queasiness, satiety, scunner, seasickness). (various references)

Romanian

remuşcare (compunction, contrition, penitence, regret, remorse, Ruth, worm of conscience). (various references)

Russian 

сомнения, опасение (anxiety, apprehension, apprehensions, fear, misgiving), приступ тошноты, приступ малодушия. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zlo (bad, evil, harm, ill, misdoing, sick), sumnja (doubt, mistrust, question, sneaking suspicion, suspicion), muka (anguish, annoyance, limbo, nausea, need, queasiness, torment). (various references)

Spanish

náusea (nausea, retching). (various references)

Swedish

oro (agitation, alarm, anxiety, botheration, concern, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, flutter, harassment, inquietude, jimjams, nervousness, perturbation, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, unease, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry). (various references)

Turkish

vicdan rahatsızlığı (guilty conscience), vicdan azabı (compunction, guilty conscience, pangs of remorse, pressure of conscience, pricks of conscience, regret, remorse, sting of conscience, twinge of conscience), mide bulantısı (nausea, nauseation, queasiness, sickness), huzursuzluk (discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fermentation, fidget, hump, inquietude, restiveness, restlessness, sleeplessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry), bulantı (nausea, nauseation, queasiness, sickness). (various references)

Ukrainian

сумнів (challenge, demur, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, impeachment, misdoubt, offence, offense, query, question, scruple), нудота (aridity, aridness, distaste, nausea, queasiness, sickness, wamble), занепоко�"ння (concern, discomposure, fash, harass, harassment, restlessness, stew, uneasiness, worriment). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thấy khó chịu trong người mối lo ngại, sự nôn nao, sự bu�"n nôn (nausea, qualmishness, queasiness), nỗi day dứt, mối e sợ nỗi băn khoăn dằn vật. (various references)

Welsh

gloes (pang). (various references)

kwalm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "qualm": qualmier, qualmiest, qualmish, qualmishly, qualmishness, qualmishnesses, qualms, qualmy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Qualm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iqilm, Qaim, qal, qalm, qawaali, Qemal, Qianli, Qila, quaim, qual, quald, quale, qualf, qualg, qualk, qualmt, Qualo, qualp, quals, qualt, qualum, quam, quame, quamy, quarm, quawl, queal, queam, quelk, quelm, quelp, quely, quhame, quiem, Quila, quilb, quilf, quilk, quilm, quiln, quim, qule, quol, quole, quolm, quom, Quwatli, squalm. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alum, maul.

-2 letters: amu, lam, lum, qua.

-3 letters: al, am, la, ma, mu, um.

+1 letter: qualms, qualmy.

+3 letters: qualmier, qualmish.

+4 letters: equimolar, qualmiest, quitclaim, squamosal.

+5 letters: lambrequin, maquillage, qualmishly, quitclaims, squamosals, squamulose.