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Definition: Queasy |
QueasyAdjective1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: QueasySynonyms: nauseated (adj), sick (adj), sickish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Queasy |
| English words defined with "queasy": feeling ♦ queasily ♦ Squesy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "queasy": Squesy. (references) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 70 | 39,981 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "queasy": feel queasy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "queasy": queasy-bright. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
queasy | 8 |
queasy bake oven | 6 |
carmen queasy | 4 |
queasy bake | 3 |
during early pregnancy queasy stomach | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) 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) вызывающий тошноту (stomach-churning), привередливый (choosy, fastidious, finical, pernickety, squeamish), подверженный тошноте, испытывающий тошноту. (various references) 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) 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) obehaglig (awkward, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, offensive, sticky, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpleasant), kväljande (mawkish, nauseating, queasily, sickening, sickly). (various references) คลื่นไส้ (nauseate). (various references) 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) 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) l m lộn mửa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coisier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "queasy" (pronounced kwē"zē) |
| 3 | -ē" z ē | breezy, cheesy, easy, marchese, sleazy, uneasy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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