queasy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective causing or able to cause nausea
  2. adjective feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
  3. adjective causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

Etymology

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

nauseating, nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile

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