Definition of queasy in English:

queasy

Pronunciation: /ˈkwiːzi/

adjective (queasier, queasiest)

1nauseous; feeling sick: in the morning he was still pale and queasy

More example sentences

She gets sick in cars and queasy whenever she steps on board a boat.
Towards the end of the time that I was spraying with Metasystox, I began to feel queasy, a bit sick and would be starting a headache which became very bad and which, even after taking paracetamol would not clear up.
The train journey was filled with little aggravating child noises and I was sitting in the wrong direction so arrive in LA feeling queasy and dizzy.
I was reading my book for the first 45 min or so, and when I looked up I felt terribly queasy.
It's enough to make even a veteran traveler a little queasy.
If bouncing around on a tour bus or swaying on deck leaves you feeling queasy, pack ginger capsules in your alternative travel kit.
Many people have experienced the roll of a boat on a rough body of water - along with a queasy stomach and uneasy legs.
I remember one particularly rough whale-watching trip where everyone felt queasy.
‘It made me a bit queasy, as these things tend to do,’ he said.
Nine out of ten women said their partner was a big help during the birth, with only 14 per cent of men feeling queasy, ten per cent leaving the room for fresh air and one per cent passing out.
I get queasy just thinking about school lunches.
He worked normally at Chequers on Saturday and felt fine when he hosted a monthly dinner there, but felt queasy on Sunday morning and a doctor was called.
I felt queasy half way through, but soldiered on.
William was driving nine-year-old Emma to Windsor Castle for the day when they stopped the car because the youngster felt queasy.
Like most highly addictive substances, at first you're left feeling slightly queasy but once you get the taste, they soon become the centre of your universe.
His TV Dinner was a feast of curiosities enmeshed with the everyday, a meal that leaves one feeling slightly queasy, even overstuffed, but eager for more.
Whatever approach you take, when you're feeling even slightly queasy, the fresh air and steadier view on deck is preferable to being down below in a damp, stuffy cabin.
She always felt slightly queasy before take off.
Strong smells can push a slightly queasy stomach over the edge.
To prevent that queasy feeling, skip acidic foods like tomatoes and orange juice if your stomach is empty.

Synonyms

nauseous, nauseated, bilious, sick;

seasick, carsick, trainsick, airsick, travel-sick, suffering from motion sickness, suffering from altitude sickness;

ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, dizzy, peaky, liverish, green around the gills;

British off, off colour;

North American sick to one's stomach

informal funny, peculiar, rough, lousy, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful, crummy

Australian , New Zealand informal crook

vulgar slang crappy

rare peakish

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1.1 inducing a feeling of nausea: the queasy swell of the boat

More example sentences

He expends all his energies reacting to the incessant, queasy lurch of the metallic object confining his limbs.
Whatever the size of the vessel, there is little worse when at sea than those disconcerting and queasy rolling motions.
The Mir slowed, then stopped, rising and falling on a queasy swell.
Still, without all that queasy motion, there would not be much to the film to make any kind of lasting impression.
Under Kevin Sutley's direction, this production finds a queasy pace, coloured as much by the insane bingeing on stage as the emotional minefield it traverses.

1.2 slightly nervous or worried about something.

Example sentences

The work combines a fourth-form puerility with a satirical current, one that leaves the viewer slightly queasy.
Yet, for all that, it was hard not to feel slightly queasy about the prospects for the remainder of the Scottish season.
All of which makes me feel slightly queasy and disinclined to buy so much as a new face cloth.
Bethany had felt energized before the meet, but now she felt nervous and queasy.
Odd how one can agree with so much of the detail of a book, while feeling slightly queasy about its broader perspective.
Was I the only one that felt slightly queasy at the thought of Kenyon taking the moral high ground?
Startups need people who won't get queasy when times are rough, he says.
With those of us who revere books as artistic products, the thought of these windows into other worlds being business commodities, as marketable as a new brand of toothpaste, makes us a little queasy.
That queasy feeling of disillusionment is a universal one says Schmidt; one that makes this particular play accessible for audiences on a very personal level.
The only people who felt queasy about this courtly ritual were the impressionable, faint-hearted administrators of British tennis.
Granted, so much of the stuff that filters into the air from the mouths of both sets of these supporters when they are in opposition to one another does induce a queasy feeling.
‘I still hadn't had any children and had always been queasy about the idea,’ she said.
I have come to appreciate what they were trying to do a little more now that I am a ‘mature’ adult, but I still get a little queasy every time I hear it.
I felt a little queasy about doing so because I thought, ‘Oh, what is somebody going to read into this?’
But as the issue moved forward, the market became queasy.
But I feel queasy about the shortness of those sentences. when you consider the length that, for an example, an abused woman might get for killing her abusive husband.
Ishiguro's latest work, Never Let Me Go, presents a portrait of a fictional English boarding school that seems idyllic but leaves us rather queasy.
But diplomats in Kinshasa are beginning to sound queasy.
Perhaps everyone is queasy about ‘brand’ being applied to the non-commercial?
He opposed Nixon's widening of the war to Cambodia and was queasy about any strategy that did not involve ‘de-Americanising’ the war.

Derivatives

queasily: adverb

Example sentences
These theoretical fears are now queasily real.
To interject a personal note here, I eat meat, sometimes happily, sometimes queasily.
The road wends queasily from valley to valley, dipping and rising through dappled woodland.

Series five has seen Tony become queasily aware that even his son is scared of him.

With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details.
queasiness: Pronunciation: /ˈkwiːzɪnɪs/

noun

Example sentences
Earlier this year Norwegian researchers found feelings of nausea and queasiness are due more to anxiety and depression than stomach problems.
My biggest concern was whether I was going to get seasick but the only queasiness I felt was on about day three, when we encountered sea-state seven, with swells up to 8m high bombarding the ship.
Many women struggle with queasiness, nausea or vomiting in early pregnancy.

This gentle layering of queasiness takes the material and the language of our day and finds it not just self-sufficient, but immensely powerful: it is here, and in other poems like it in this collection, that Robertson is at his best.

UK growth will continue into 2005; even with queasiness among consumers, growth should be above 2.5% next year.

Origin

late Middle Englishqueisy, coisy 'causing nausea', of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old French coisier 'to hurt'.

Words that rhyme with queasy

breezy, cheesy, easy, easy-peasy, Kesey, Parcheesi, sleazy, wheezy, Zambezi

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