All squeamish synonyms
squeamΒ·ish
S s adv squeamish
- daintily β of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- discreetly β judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- guardedly β cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- fastidiously β excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- circumspectly β watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- charily β cautiously; carefully
adjective squeamish
- nice β pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- overexact β Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overfastidious β excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- forceless β Without force.
- queasy β inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- finicking β Finical.
- overdelicate β extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- amoebalike β Having the characteristics of an amoeba.
- qualmish β tending to have, or having, qualms.
- queer β strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- nitpicky β Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
- qualmy β Queasy; nauseous.
adj squeamish
- delicate β Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- grossed out β without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- fussbudget β a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person.
- mincing β (of the gait, speech, behavior, etc.) affectedly dainty, nice, or elegant.
- goody goody β a person who is self-righteously, affectedly, or cloyingly good.
- disgusted β to cause loathing or nausea in.
- fastidious β excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- faint-hearted β lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- bilious β If someone describes the appearance of something as bilious, they mean that they think it looks unpleasant and rather disgusting.
- goody two shoes β a goody-goody.
- gingerly β with great care or caution; warily.
- invertebrate β Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
- goody-two-shoes β a goody-goody.
- finicky β excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.
- in-effective β not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- conscionable β acceptable to one's conscience
- fussy β excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
- nauseous β affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
noun squeamish
- demur β If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
- queasiness β The state of being queasy; nausea.
- censor β If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.
- fastidiousness β excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- biliousness β Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- nausea β sickness at the stomach, especially when accompanied by a loathing for food and an involuntary impulse to vomit.
- qualmishness β The quality of being qualmish.
- qualms β an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- faltering β to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.