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# queasy

«queasy» in Mova's school dictionary: **feeling a little sick in your stomach, as if you might vomit** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (queasy, queasier, queasiest); noun queasiness

### meaning for a pupil

1) Queasy means feeling a little sick in your stomach, as if you might vomit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#m1)

2) Queasy can mean uneasy or uncomfortable about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons and everyday life: travel sickness on a boat or in a car can make you queasy; so can a bug or eating too much. In stories it shows nervousness: «a queasy feeling before the test». Phrases: feel queasy, a queasy stomach, queasy feeling.

### examples

- I felt queasy on the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#x1)
- Reading in the car makes me queasy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#x2)
- The roller coaster left him a bit queasy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#x3)
- She had a queasy feeling before the big test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#x4)
- Tell the teacher if you feel queasy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#x5)
- The smell of the bin made me queasy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/#x6)

### note

Comparatives: queasier, queasiest. Spelling: q-u-e-a-s-y (qu + easy). Queasy is milder than «sick»; it means you only feel like you might be sick.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «queasy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/queasy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.