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Queasy

Definition: Queasy

Queasy

Adjective

1. Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.

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

Date "queasy" was first used: 1459. (references)

Note: Queasy \Quea"sy\, adjective. [Icel. kweisa pain; compare to Norw. kveis sickness after debauch.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Queasy

DomainDefinition

Computing

QUEASY An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1995-01-25). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Synonyms: Queasy

Synonyms: nauseated (adj), sick (adj), sickish (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Queasy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dislike

Adjective: disliking; Verb: averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick; queasy.

Fastidiousness

Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Queasy

English words defined with "queasy": feelingqueasilySquesy. (references)
Etymologies containing "queasy": Squesy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Queasy

DomainTitle

Music

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Image Slideshow: Queasy

Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: Queasy

"Queasy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Queasy" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7039,981

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Expressions: Queasy

Expression using "queasy": feel queasy. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "queasy": queasy-bright.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Queasy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

queasy

8

queasy bake oven

6

carmen queasy

4

queasy bake

3

during early pregnancy queasy stomach

2
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Modern Translation: Queasy

Language Translations for "queasy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që ndjen të përzier, trazirë (bewilderment, commotion, convulsion, disorder, dustup, fuss, hustle, outbreak, pother, qualm, queasiness, riot, ruction, shindy, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), e përzier (feeling of nausea, qualm, qualmishness, queasiness, spew). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مغسي, ‏مغث (brackish, disgusting, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, sickly), ‏غير قابل للهضم (indigestible), ‏غثياني, ‏الشعور بالمغس. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), рискован (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, hazardous, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, speculative, sporting, touch and go, unsound, venturesome), колеблив (backward, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fitful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, irresolute, labile, pendulous, rickety, rocky, tardy, tentative, vacillating, versatile, wavering, wobbly, yo-yo), гнуслив (squeamish), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), на когото често му се гади, прекалено добросъвестен, причиняващ гадене, причиняващ повръщане, придирчив (captious, carping, choosey, dainty, delicate, exacting, exceptive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, nice, particular, pernickety, squeamish). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不稳定 (Instabilities, instability, Queasily, unstable). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zvedající žaludek, přecitlivìlý (hypersensitive, mawkish, squeamish, ticklish, touchy), odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

لطیف مزاج , وسواسی (Meticulous, Morose, Scrupulous, Whimsical), تهوع اور (Nauseous), زیاددقیق . (various references)

   

French

  

indigeste, éc"urant. (various references)

   

German

  

heikel (awkward, choosy, delicate, difficult, fussily, fussy, nice, particular, pernickety, queasily, scabrous, scabrously, thorny, tickling, ticklish, tricky). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σιχασιάρησ (squeamish), ναυτιών (qualmish, seasick, sickish), εύθικτοσ (huffy, sensitive, touchy), ευαίσθητοσ (delicate, emotional, impressionable, mushy, responsive, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, temperamental, thin-skinned, touchy), αηδιαστικόσ (disgusting, distasteful, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, repulsive, sicking). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מבחיל (nasty, nauseous, odious, revolting, sickening, sickly), בוחל. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kényes (fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, missy, namby-pamby, pernickety, prickly, sensitive, subtle, tender, testy, ticklish), válogatós (chary, choosey, choosy, delicate, finical, finicking, finicky, nice, pernickety, selective), undorító (abominable, carrion, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, fulsome, groaty, grotty, grovelling, hideous, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nauseating, nauseous, pooping, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, smarmy, ugly), hányingerrel küzdő, finnyás (choosey, choosy, dainty, fastidious, pernickety, precious, sophisticated, squeamish), émelygéssel küzdő, émelygő (qualmish), émelyítő (cloying, fulsome, mawkish, nauseating, nauseous, sickly, slushy sentimentality). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mual (bellyful), memusingkan (daze, hassle). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nauseabondo (nauseas, nauseating, sickening, sickly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

むかむか (nausea, surge of anger). (various references)

   

Manx

  

skeeahoil (emetic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easyquay

   

Portuguese

  

nauseado (dog-sick, nauseated), nauseabundo (foul, nauseous, putrid, stinking, unpalatable), maldisposto (chippy, fretful, grumpy, snappish, snappy, snippy, unwell, upstage), enjoado (airsick, bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, nauseated, qualmish, seasick, squeamish). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ultrasensibil (irritable), suferind de greţuri, scrupulos (careful, conscientious, finical, nice, particular, punctilious, qualmish, religious, scrupulous, scrupulously, thorough), greţos (disgusting, gross, nauseous, sickening, sickly, unsavory, unsavoury), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, refined, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вызывающий тошноту (stomach-churning), привередливый (choosy, fastidious, finical, pernickety, squeamish), подверженный тошноте, испытывающий тошноту. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uznemiren (disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, perturbed, troubled, uneasy, unsettled, upset, vexed), osetljiv (dainty, fast, pettish, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, sentient, susceptible, tetchy, thin-skinned), gadljiv čovek, gadljiv (nauseous, squeamish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mareado (airsick, dizzy, giddy, groggy, light-headed, seasick), escrupuloso (accurate, compunctious, delicate, qualmish, scrupulous, tender), complicado (anfractuous, complex, complicated, compound, convolute, elaborate, involved, knotted, knotty, many-sided, perplexing, tangled). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

obehaglig (awkward, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, offensive, sticky, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpleasant), kväljande (mawkish, nauseating, queasily, sickening, sickly). (various references)

   

Thai

  

คลื่นไส้ (nauseate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zor beğenen (choosy, difficult, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy), tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), midesi bulanmış (qualmish, sick), mide bulandırıcı (fulsome, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, sick, sickening, sickly), kusturucu (emetic, vomitive, vomitory), kusacak gibi, hassas (brittle, climacteric, critical, delicate, emotional, exquisite, fair, feeling, fine, impressible, impressionable, nice, passibile, precision, quick, raw, responsive, rose water, sensible, sensitive, slippery, sore, spoony, squeamish, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, ticklish, tickly, touchy), aşırı titiz (prim and proper, prissy, punctilious, splenetic), çabuk bulanan. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), вередливий (fastidious, naughty, perverse, squeamish), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, routine, sickish, sickly, treacly), делікатний (kid glove, pernickety, persnickety, scrupulous, slippery, ticklish). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

l m lộn mửa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Queasy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old French900-1400

coisier. (various references)

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Misspellings: Queasy

Misspellings

"Queasy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: qawasim, quaes, quasay, Quasim, Quassia, quasy, quazy, quea, queany, queary, quease, queasie, queat, queay, queaz, queazy, queey, queez, queezy, queisy, quesa, quesat, quesi, queso, quesy, quiesy, quisy, Quiyas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Queasy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "queasy" (pronounced kwē"zē)
3-ē" z ēbreezy, cheesy, easy, marchese, sleazy, uneasy.

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Anagrams: Queasy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-q-s-u-y"

-1 letter: quays, queys.

-2 letters: ayes, easy, eyas, quay, quey, yeas.

-3 letters: aye, ays, eau, qua, sae, sau, say, sea, sue, suq, use, yea, yes.

-4 letters: ae, as, ay, es, us, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-q-s-u-y"
 

+1 letter: squeaky.

 

+2 letters: lacqueys, quayages, quayside, queasily, squarely.

 

+3 letters: quaysides, sequacity.

 

+5 letters: questionary, squeamishly, squirearchy, youthquakes.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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