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Definition of queasy in English: queasyadjectivequeasiest, queasier ˈkwiːziˈkwizi 1Nauseous; feeling sick. in the morning he was still pale and queasy Example sentencesExamples - 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 remember one particularly rough whale-watching trip where everyone felt queasy.
- If bouncing around on a tour bus or swaying on deck leaves you feeling queasy, pack ginger capsules in your alternative travel kit.
- She gets sick in cars and queasy whenever she steps on board a boat.
- I get queasy just thinking about school lunches.
- ‘It made me a bit queasy, as these things tend to do,’ he said.
- 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.
- I was reading my book for the first 45 min or so, and when I looked up I felt terribly queasy.
- William was driving nine-year-old Emma to Windsor Castle for the day when they stopped the car because the youngster felt queasy.
- Many people have experienced the roll of a boat on a rough body of water - along with a queasy stomach and uneasy legs.
- 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.
- Strong smells can push a slightly queasy stomach over the edge.
- It's enough to make even a veteran traveler a little queasy.
- 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.
- She always felt slightly queasy before take off.
- To prevent that queasy feeling, skip acidic foods like tomatoes and orange juice if your stomach is empty.
- I felt queasy half way through, but soldiered on.
- 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.
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 about 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 - 1.1 Inducing a feeling of nausea.
the queasy swell of the boat Example sentencesExamples - Whatever the size of the vessel, there is little worse when at sea than those disconcerting and queasy rolling motions.
- 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.
- Still, without all that queasy motion, there would not be much to the film to make any kind of lasting impression.
- He expends all his energies reacting to the incessant, queasy lurch of the metallic object confining his limbs.
- The Mir slowed, then stopped, rising and falling on a queasy swell.
- 1.2 Slightly nervous or worried about something.
Example sentencesExamples - Yet, for all that, it was hard not to feel slightly queasy about the prospects for the remainder of the Scottish season.
- The work combines a fourth-form puerility with a satirical current, one that leaves the viewer slightly 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?
- ‘I still hadn't had any children and had always been queasy about the idea,’ she said.
- I felt a little queasy about doing so because I thought, ‘Oh, what is somebody going to read into this?’
- 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.
- The only people who felt queasy about this courtly ritual were the impressionable, faint-hearted administrators of British tennis.
- All of which makes me feel slightly queasy and disinclined to buy so much as a new face cloth.
- 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.
- Startups need people who won't get queasy when times are rough, he says.
- 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.
- Bethany had felt energized before the meet, but now she felt nervous and queasy.
- 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.
- Perhaps everyone is queasy about ‘brand’ being applied to the non-commercial?
- But diplomats in Kinshasa are beginning to sound queasy.
- 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.
- He opposed Nixon's widening of the war to Cambodia and was queasy about any strategy that did not involve ‘de-Americanising’ the war.
- 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.
- But as the issue moved forward, the market became queasy.
Derivatives adverb Series five has seen Tony become queasily aware that even his son is scared of him. Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details.
noun ˈkwiːzɪnəs 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. Example sentencesExamples - UK growth will continue into 2005; even with queasiness among consumers, growth should be above 2.5% next year.
- Earlier this year Norwegian researchers found feelings of nausea and queasiness are due more to anxiety and depression than stomach problems.
- 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.
Origin Late Middle English queisy, coisy 'causing nausea', of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old French coisier 'to hurt'. Rhymes breezy, cheesy, easy, easy-peasy, Kesey, Parcheesi, sleazy, wheezy, Zambezi Definition of queasy in US English: queasyadjectiveˈkwiziˈkwēzē 1Nauseated; feeling sick. in the morning he was still pale and queasy Example sentencesExamples - It's enough to make even a veteran traveler a little queasy.
- ‘It made me a bit queasy, as these things tend to do,’ he said.
- 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.
- I get queasy just thinking about school lunches.
- 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.
- To prevent that queasy feeling, skip acidic foods like tomatoes and orange juice if your stomach is empty.
- 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.
- She gets sick in cars and queasy whenever she steps on board a boat.
- I remember one particularly rough whale-watching trip where everyone felt queasy.
- 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.
- I was reading my book for the first 45 min or so, and when I looked up I felt terribly queasy.
- Many people have experienced the roll of a boat on a rough body of water - along with a queasy stomach and uneasy legs.
- She always felt slightly queasy before take off.
- I felt queasy half way through, but soldiered on.
- Strong smells can push a slightly queasy stomach over the edge.
- If bouncing around on a tour bus or swaying on deck leaves you feeling queasy, pack ginger capsules in your alternative travel kit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms nauseous, nauseated, bilious, sick - 1.1 Inducing a feeling of nausea.
the queasy swell of the boat Example sentencesExamples - The Mir slowed, then stopped, rising and falling on a queasy swell.
- Whatever the size of the vessel, there is little worse when at sea than those disconcerting and queasy rolling motions.
- 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.
- He expends all his energies reacting to the incessant, queasy lurch of the metallic object confining his limbs.
- Still, without all that queasy motion, there would not be much to the film to make any kind of lasting impression.
- 1.2 Slightly nervous or worried about something.
Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- But diplomats in Kinshasa are beginning to sound queasy.
- All of which makes me feel slightly queasy and disinclined to buy so much as a new face cloth.
- Startups need people who won't get queasy when times are rough, he says.
- 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.
- 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.
- Was I the only one that felt slightly queasy at the thought of Kenyon taking the moral high ground?
- 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.
- Odd how one can agree with so much of the detail of a book, while feeling slightly queasy about its broader perspective.
- ‘I still hadn't had any children and had always been queasy about the idea,’ she said.
- The only people who felt queasy about this courtly ritual were the impressionable, faint-hearted administrators of British tennis.
- He opposed Nixon's widening of the war to Cambodia and was queasy about any strategy that did not involve ‘de-Americanising’ the war.
- Yet, for all that, it was hard not to feel slightly queasy about the prospects for the remainder of the Scottish season.
- 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.
- I felt a little queasy about doing so because I thought, ‘Oh, what is somebody going to read into this?’
- Bethany had felt energized before the meet, but now she felt nervous and queasy.
- Perhaps everyone is queasy about ‘brand’ being applied to the non-commercial?
- 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.
- But as the issue moved forward, the market became queasy.
- The work combines a fourth-form puerility with a satirical current, one that leaves the viewer slightly queasy.
Origin Late Middle English queisy, coisy ‘causing nausea’, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Old French coisier ‘to hurt’. |