queasy

Examples

• All

• My stomach felt queasy all morning.

  Annie Hall (1977)

• At first, he felt a little queasy and wondered why he had taken it.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Anyway, I remember now that I felt a bit queasy when I arrived in Paris on Tuesday night.

  Fiction book (1996)

• My stomach feels all queasy.

  Despicable Me 3 (2017)

• I'm starting to get kind of queasy.

  Tower Heist (2011)

• I was nervous and tense; my body felt numb, and my stomach was queasy.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I'm feeling queasy.

  Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011)

• The sight of the stormy sea made him feel queasy as the boat rocked back and forth.

• She took some medicine to help with the queasy sensation in her stomach.

Synonyms

S

sick

vsqueasy

579 1.0

Feeling like you might throw up

is a slightly milder or more general form of that same feeling

N

nauseous

vsqueasy

66 4.4

Feeling like you will be sick

is a broader uneasy sickness that can also mean causing nausea

S

sickening

vsqueasy

50 5.1

That causes a strong feeling of wanting to vomit or of disgust

is milder and may describe a feeling rather than causing strong disgust

N

nauseating

vsqueasy

14 5.1

Making people feel sick or want to throw up

describes the actual sick feeling rather than the cause

N

nauseated

vsqueasy

10 4.5

Feeling sick and likely to vomit

is a general sick feeling and may or may not include vomiting urge

C

cruddy

vsqueasy

• Informal

1 8.2

Feeling slightly sick or not well

is more specifically about nausea or vomiting rather than general unwellness

V

vomitous

vsqueasy

1 8.7

Very disgusting and likely to make someone want to throw up

is a general sick feeling and not necessarily extremely disgusting

B

barfy

vsqueasy

• Informal

1 8.9

Feeling like you will throw up or making someone feel like that

is the neutral term for feeling sick or causing sickness

S

sickish

vsqueasy

1 6.7

Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up

is the general sick or vomiting feeling without the mild qualification

Q

qualmish

vsqueasy

9.9

Feeling slightly sick or disgusted after seeing something unpleasant

focuses mainly on the stomach sickness or causing nausea without disgust emphasis

L

liverish

vsqueasy

• Archaic

9.9

Feeling a little sick and grumpy, often after eating rich food

is a more direct nausea feeling rather than indigestion related illness

How Queasy

ill

632 1.0

nauseous

3 4.4

sick

579 1.0

queasy

30 4.1

unwell

18 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology