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qualmish
adjective as in laid-up
Weak matches
- ailing
- bedridden
- broken down
- confined
- debilitated
- declining
- defective
- delicate
- diseased
- disordered
- down
- feeble
- feverish
- frail
- funny
- green
- hospitalized
- ill
- impaired
- imperfect
- in a bad way
- in poor health
- incurable
- indisposed
- infected
- infirm
- invalid
- lousy
- mean
- nauseated
- not so hot
- peaked
- poorly
- queasy
- rickety
- rocky
- rotten
- run down
- sick as a dog
- suffering
- tottering
- under medication
- under the weather
- unhealthy
- unwell
- weak
- wobbly
adjective as in queasy
adjective as in sick
Strong matches
adjective as in squeamish
Example Sentences
Now, captain, it’s no use being qualmish upon the subject, but upon my word I should like to see how you poachers manage to take your game.
So when Peter Basset, still pale and qualmish, came on deck in the early morning, a little below the Pool, the first person he saw was the girl whom he had come to escort.
He would never consent to such strong measures, as might seem convenient to less qualmish persons.
Shane liked something more highly spiced than an innocent miss, who, he declared, always made him qualmish with a smell of bread and butter.
In the sense of nervous weakness, or, perhaps more correctly, nervine weakness, the word should probably be nervish, analogous to qualmish, squeamish, aguish, feverish, &c.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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