Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: queasy
IPA transcription: [kw'izi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish
    Meaning: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  • Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
    Meaning: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
Usage examples
  • It was a little later that Chris remembered Amos having taken his arm and led him into the shade, and of how sick he was--the heat and the scream, the fear, and a sense of having failed in warning the Captain, combining to churn his insides into a queasy place that violently rejected his pleasant breakfast of so short a time before.