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squeamish
[ skwee-mish ]
adjective
- fastidious or dainty.
Synonyms: modest
Antonyms: bold
- easily shocked by anything slightly immodest; prudish.
Antonyms: bold
- excessively particular or scrupulous as to the moral aspect of things.
Synonyms: exacting, delicate, finicky, finical
Antonyms: bold
- easily nauseated or disgusted:
to get squeamish at the sight of blood.
squeamish
/ ˈskwiːmɪʃ /
adjective
- easily sickened or nauseated, as by the sight of blood
- easily shocked; fastidious or prudish
- easily frightened
squeamish about spiders
Derived Forms
- ˈsqueamishness, noun
- ˈsqueamishly, adverb
Other Words From
- squeamish·ly adverb
- squeamish·ness noun
- over·squeamish adjective
- over·squeamish·ly adverb
- over·squeamish·ness noun
- un·squeamish adjective
- un·squeamish·ly adverb
- un·squeamish·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of squeamish1
Word History and Origins
Origin of squeamish1
Example Sentences
None were squeamish about organising power to pursue their object.
Katy Perry as a squeamish conservative is a little hard to swallow.
Partisans are seldom over-squeamish about their choice of allies.
Linda Kasabian, a more recent and squeamish recruit, was left to stand guard at the gate.
Plenty of non-conservatives are squeamish about 20-plus-week abortions.
Yet so squeamish did he become when once the official mantle had descended upon his shoulders, that even the exclamations “lud!”
Even for the most squeamish the discomforts of the voyage lay behind.
Had you not been so over squeamish you might have changed the children, and made your own son the heir of the Moncton.
Those who are responsible are squeamish as to the appearance of delicacy in the conduct of a young girl.
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear, but in listening to the story of human suffering and endeavoring to relieve it.
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