Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily nauseated or sickened.
- adjective Nauseated.
- adjective Easily shocked or disgusted.
- adjective Excessively fastidious or scrupulous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective easily
bothered orupset ; tending to benauseous ornervous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
pqnga commented on the word squeamish
If you feel squeamish about posting something—don’t. Wait a day or two, and think it over. (Gretchen Rubin)
April 9, 2011