Queasy Definition
kwēzē
queasier, queasiest, queasy
adjective
queasiest, queasier
Affected with nausea.
Webster's New World
Easily nauseated.
American Heritage Medicine
Causing nausea.
Webster's New World
Causing or feeling discomfort; uneasy.
Webster's New World
Uneasy; troubled.
American Heritage Medicine
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Other Word Forms of Queasy
Adjective
Base Form:
queasy
Comparative:
queasier
Superlative:
queasiestOrigin of Queasy
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From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa (“boil") (> Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier (“to wound, hurt, make uneasy").
From Wiktionary
Middle English coisy perhaps of Scandinavian origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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