Qualm

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sudden feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea.
  • n. A sudden disturbing feeling: qualms of homesickness.
  • n. An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Mortality; plague; pestilence.
  • n. A calamity or disaster.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
  • n. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
  • n. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
  • n. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Illness; disease; pestilence; plague.
  • n. A sudden attack of illness; a turn of faintness or suffering; a throe or throb of pain.
  • n. Especially, a sudden fit or seizure of sickness at the stomach; a sensation of nausea.
  • n. A scruple or twinge of conscience; compunction; uneasiness.
  • n. The boding cry of a raven.
  • To be sick; suffer from qualms.
  • To cause pain or qualms.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. uneasiness about the fitness of an action
  • n. a mild state of nausea
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    anxiety    nausea    sickness   
    Form
    qualmishness    qualmish    qualmy    qualmishly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sickness    disease    pestilence    death    agony    compunction    fit    nausea   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    twinge    misgiving    tremor    stirring    spasm    scruple    queasiness    twitch    revulsion    undercurrent