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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUE'ASY, a. s as z.
1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.
2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate.
3. Causing nausea; as a queasy question.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
3: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" [syn: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet]

Merriam Webster's

also queazy adjective (queasier; -est) Etymology: Middle English coysy, qwesye Date: 15th century 1. a. causing nausea <queasy motion> b. suffering from nausea ; nauseated 2. full of doubt ; hazardous 3. a. causing uneasiness b. (1) delicate, squeamish (2) ill at ease • queasily adverb • queasiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 a (of a person) feeling nausea. b (of a person's stomach) easily upset, weak of digestion. 2 (of the conscience etc.) overscrupulous, tender. Derivatives: queasily adv. queasiness n. Etymology: ME queysy, coisy perh. f. AF & OF, rel. to OF coisir hurt

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Queasy Quea"sy, a. [Icel. kweisa pain; cf. Norw. kveis sickness after a debauch.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(queasier, queasiest) If you feel queasy or if you have a queasy stomach, you feel rather ill, as if you are going to be sick. (INFORMAL) He was very prone to seasickness and already felt queasy. ADJ • queasiness The food did nothing to stifle her queasiness.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Qualmish, sick (at the stomach), inclined to vomit, nauseated. 2. Fastidious, squeamish, difficult, over-nice, delicate.

Moby Thesaurus

airsick, apprehensive, barfy, bilious, carsick, difficult, discomfited, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fishy, fuss-budgety, fussy, groggy, hard to please, hesitant, ill, ill at ease, indecisive, nauseated, nauseous, nervous, open, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, precarious, pukish, puky, qualmish, qualmy, queer, seasick, shady, sick, squeamish, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettled, woozy, worried