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quea⋅sy

  [kwee-zee]
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–adjective, -si⋅er, -si⋅est.
1. inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
2. tending to cause nausea; nauseating.
3. uneasy or uncomfortable, as feelings, the conscience, etc.
4. squeamish; excessively fastidious.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME qweysy, coisi, of uncert. orig.

Related forms:
quea⋅si⋅ly, adverb
quea⋅si⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
3. upset, troubled, anxious, worried.
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quea·sy also quea·zy   (kwē'zē)   
adj.   quea·si·er also quea·zi·er, quea·si·est also quea·zi·est

  1. Experiencing nausea; nauseated.

  2. Easily nauseated.

  3. Causing nausea; sickening: the queasy lurch of an airplane during a storm.

    1. Causing uneasiness.

    2. Uneasy; troubled.

    3. Easily troubled.

    4. Ill at ease; squeamish: "He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation" (Shaul Bakhash).

    1. Easily troubled.

    2. Ill at ease; squeamish: "He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation" (Shaul Bakhash).


[Middle English coisy, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
quea'si·ly adv., quea'si·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

queasy 
1459, coysy, possibly from O.N. kveisa "boil," perhaps influenced by Anglo-Fr. queisier, from O.Fr. coisier "to wound, hurt, make uneasy," from the same Gmc. root as kveisa. But history is obscure and evidences of development are wanting.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

queasy quea·sy or quea·zy (kwē'zē)
adj. quea·si·er or quea·zi·er, quea·si·est or quea·zi·est

  1. Experiencing nausea; nauseated.

  2. Easily nauseated.

  3. Causing nausea; sickening.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Computing Dictionary

QUEASY
An early system on the IBM 701.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1995-01-25)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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