Squeamish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Easily nauseated or sickened.
  • adj. Nauseated.
  • adj. Easily shocked or disgusted.
  • adj. Excessively fastidious or scrupulous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseous or nervous
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a stomach that is easily turned or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Easily disgusted or nauseated; hence, fastidious; scrupulous; particular; nice to excess in questions of propriety or taste; finical: as, a squeamish stomach; squeamish notions.
  • Qualmish; slightly nauseated; sickish: as, a squeamish feeling.
  • Synonyms Dainty, Fastidious, etc. (see nice), overnice, straitlaced.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
  • Equivalent
    fastidious   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    overnice    scrupulous    dainty    fastidious    sick    distant    priggish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    beamish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tongue-tied    strait-laced    finical    ambivalent    jumpy    bashful    hesitant    unwell    reticent    effeminate