squeamish

squeamish
Synonyms and related words:
airsick, barfy, bashful, boggling, carsick, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, demurring, difficult, diffident, dizzy, exacting, faltering, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fuddy-duddy, fuss-budgety, fussy, hard to please, hesitant, hesitating, meticulous, modest, nauseated, nauseous, nice, painstaking, particular, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, prudish, pukish, puky, punctilious, qualmish, qualmy, queasy, queer, scrupulous, seasick, shaky, shrinking, shy, stickling, unsettled, upset, vertiginous

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  • Squeamish — Squeam ish (skw[=e]m [i^]sh), a. [OE. squaimous, sweymous, probably from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a swimming in the head; cf. Icel. sveimr a bustle, a stir, Norw. sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one, Icel. svimi a giddiness …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • squeamish — index disinclined, reluctant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • squeamish — mid 15c., variant of squoymous disdainful, fastidious (c.1300), from Anglo Fr. *escoymous, which is of unknown origin. He was somdel squaymous Of fartyng, and of speche daungerous [Chaucer, Miller s Tale, c.1386] …   Etymology dictionary

  • squeamish — ñnicky, ñnicking, finical, particular, fussy, persnickety, pernickety, fastidious, *nice, dainty Analogous words: exacting, demanding, requiring (see DEMAND): hypercritical, *critical, faultfinding, caviling, captious, carping …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • squeamish — [adj] nauseated; finicky annoyed, captious, delicate, disgusted, dizzy, exacting, fastidious, fussy, hypercritical, mincing, particular, prim, prudish, puritanical, qualmish, queasy, queer, scrupulous, shaky, sick, sickly, sick to one’s stomach* …   New thesaurus

  • squeamish — ► ADJECTIVE 1) easily nauseated or disgusted. 2) having fastidious moral views. DERIVATIVES squeamishly adverb squeamishness noun. ORIGIN Old French escoymos …   English terms dictionary

  • squeamish — [skwē′mish] adj. [ME squaymysch, earlier squaimous < Anglo Fr escoimous, orig., disdainful, shy] 1. having a digestive system that is easily upset; easily nauseated; queasy 2. easily shocked or offended; prudish 3. excessively fastidious;… …   English World dictionary

  • squeamish — adjective 1) I m too squeamish to gut fish are you squeamish about a little blood? Syn: easily nauseated, nervous; (squeamish about) put off by, not able to stand the sight of 2) less squeamish nations will sell them arms Syn: scrupulous,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • squeamish — squeam|ish [ˈskwi:mıʃ] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Anglo French; Origin: escoymous] 1.) easily shocked or upset, or easily made to feel sick by seeing unpleasant things 2.) the squeamish [plural] people who are squeamish ▪ His new novel is not for… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • squeamish — [[t]skwi͟ːmɪʃ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ If you are squeamish, you are easily upset by unpleasant sights or situations. I m terribly squeamish. I can t bear gory films... I am not squeamish about blood. Derived words: squeamishness N UNCOUNT …   English dictionary

  • squeamish — adj. squeamish about * * * [ skwiːmɪʃ] squeamish about …   Combinatory dictionary

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