queasy
- adjective
- /ˈkwizi/
- After the roller coaster ride, I felt quite queasy and needed to sit down.
Just thinking about it makes me just queasy.
- Just thinking about it makes me just queasy.
Examples
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My stomach felt queasy all morning.
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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.
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I'm starting to get kind of queasy.
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I was nervous and tense; my body felt numb, and my stomach was queasy.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm feeling queasy.
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The sight of the stormy sea made him feel queasy as the boat rocked back and forth.
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She took some medicine to help with the queasy sensation in her stomach.
Synonyms
Feeling like you might throw up
Feeling like you will be sick
That causes a strong feeling of wanting to vomit or of disgust
Making people feel sick or want to throw up
Feeling sick and likely to vomit
Feeling slightly sick or not well
Very disgusting and likely to make someone want to throw up
Feeling like you will throw up or making someone feel like that
Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up
Feeling slightly sick or disgusted after seeing something unpleasant
Feeling a little sick and grumpy, often after eating rich food
How Queasy
Surface Forms
Morphology
queasy = quease (semi-transparent) = quease + y
Formed regularly from the noun 'quease' with the adjectival suffix '-y', but 'quease' is uncommon so learners may not readily infer the relation.
Etymology
Queasy comes from the older word quease, which meant 'sickness' or 'nausea'. So if you feel queasy, you feel physically ill or like you might vomit.