queasy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite causing or able to cause nausea
    vile; nauseous; offensive; loathsome; sickening; noisome; nauseating.
    • a nauseating smell
    • nauseous offal
    • a sickening stench
  2. adjective satellite feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
    nauseous; nauseated; sick; sickish.
  3. adjective satellite causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
    anxious; nervous; unquiet; uneasy.
    • spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
    • cast anxious glances behind her
    • those nervous moments before takeoff
    • an unquiet mind

WordNet

Quea"sy adjective
Etymology
Icel. kweisa pain; cf. Norw. kveis sickness after a debauch.
Definitions
  1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
  2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." Shak.
    Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms. Cowper.

Webster 1913