queasy

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
    — She was in the middle of a gigantic breakfast of coffee and piles of toast, eggs and bacon and a tall glass of milk. It made him queasy to see all that food.
  2. Easily troubled; squeamish.

词形变化

queasier comparative queasiest superlative queazy alternative queezy alternative queesy alternative

词汇关系

词源

From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa (“boil”) ( > Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier (“to wound, hurt, make uneasy”).
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