squeamish[adjective]Synonyms:- delicate, fastidious, prudish, strait-laced
- sick, nauseous, queasy
Related Idioms: sick at (
or to) one's stomach
Related Words: unsettled,
upset,
dizzy,
shaky,
vertiginous [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
squeam‧ish /ˈskwiːmɪʃ/
adjective[
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Anglo-French;
Origin: escoymous]
1. easily shocked or upset, or easily made to feel sick by seeing unpleasant things
2. the squeamish [plural] people who are squeamish:
His new novel is not for the squeamish.—squeamishness noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲