What is another word for squeamish?
Pronunciation:
[ skwˈiːmɪʃ], [ skwˈiːmɪʃ], [ s_k_w_ˈiː_m_ɪ_ʃ]
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Similar words for squeamish:
- amazed (adjective)
- fastidious (adjective)
- prissy (adjective)
- queasy (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- delicate (adjective)
- disgusted (adjective)
- finicky (adjective)
- fussy (adjective)
- mincing (adjective)
- nauseous (adjective)
- nice (adjective)
- prudish (adjective)
- queer (adjective)
- reluctant (adjective)
- shocked (adjective)
- spineless (adjective)
- finicky
- noun
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
Synonyms for Squeamish:
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adj.
• amazed • fastidious- Qualmish ,
- accurate ,
- careful ,
- choosy ,
- conscientious ,
- correct ,
- critical ,
- dainty ,
- demanding ,
- diligent ,
- discerning ,
- discriminating ,
- epicurean ,
- exacting ,
- flawless ,
- fussbudgety ,
- hard to please ,
- hypercritical ,
- literal ,
- methodical ,
- meticulous ,
- nit-picky ,
- overdelicate ,
- particular ,
- persnickety ,
- perspicacious ,
- picky ,
- precise ,
- priggish ,
- prim ,
- proper ,
- prudish ,
- punctilious ,
- rigorous ,
- scrupulous ,
- severe .
- Resisting ,
- averse ,
- balky ,
- contrary ,
- defiant ,
- disinclined ,
- hesitant ,
- indisposed ,
- irreconcilable ,
- loath ,
- non-consenting ,
- noncooperative ,
- obstinate ,
- opposed ,
- recalcitrant ,
- stubborn ,
- uncomplying ,
- unconsenting ,
- uncooperative ,
- unhelpful ,
- unwilling ,
- unyielding .
- dis gusted ,
- dis pleased ,
- dis-gusted ,
- dis-pleased ,
- more abhorred ,
- more appalled ,
- more outraged ,
- more repelled ,
- more repulsed ,
- more revolted ,
- more satiated ,
- more scandalized ,
- most abhorred ,
- most appalled ,
- most outraged ,
- most repelled ,
- most repulsed ,
- most revolted ,
- most satiated ,
- most scandalized ,
- out raged ,
- out-raged ,
- over wrought ,
- re pulsed ,
- re-pulsed ,
- satiated ,
- sick tired of ,
- sickest ,
- teed off ,
- un happier ,
- un happiest ,
- un happy ,
- un-happy .
- more fussbudget ,
- more nit picking ,
- more nit-picking ,
- most fussbudget ,
- most nit picking ,
- most nit-picking ,
- nit picking .
- ex act ,
- ex-act ,
- fuddy duddy ,
- fuddyduddy ,
- more conscionable ,
- more fuddy duddy ,
- more fuddy-duddy ,
- more fuddyduddy ,
- more overfastidious ,
- more picky picky ,
- more picky-picky ,
- more pickypicky ,
- most conscionable ,
- most fuddy duddy ,
- most fuddy-duddy ,
- most fuddyduddy ,
- most overfastidious ,
- most picky picky ,
- most picky-picky ,
- most pickypicky ,
- over fastidious ,
- over-fastidious ,
- picky picky ,
- pickypicky .
- in sincere ,
- in sincerer ,
- in sincerest ,
- in-sincere ,
- in-sincerer ,
- in-sincerest ,
- la di da ,
- more too too ,
- more too-too ,
- more tootoo ,
- most too too ,
- most too-too ,
- most tootoo ,
- sissier ,
- sissiest ,
- too too ,
- tootoo ,
- un-natural .
- be-coming ,
- be-fitting ,
- de cent ,
- de-cent ,
- more hairsplitting ,
- most hairsplitting ,
- well bred ,
- well-bred ,
- wellbred .
- de mure ,
- de-mure ,
- more overexact ,
- more overmodest ,
- more simpering ,
- most overexact ,
- most overmodest ,
- most simpering ,
- narrow minded ,
- narrowminded ,
- over exact ,
- over modest ,
- over-exact ,
- overexact ,
- up tight ,
- up-tight .
- dis heartened ,
- dis inclined ,
- dis-heartened ,
- dis-inclined ,
- in voluntary ,
- in-voluntary ,
- more demurring ,
- more disheartened ,
- more grudging ,
- more laggard ,
- more uneager ,
- most demurring ,
- most disheartened ,
- most grudging ,
- most laggard ,
- most uneager ,
- un eager ,
- un-eager .
- de grading ,
- de-grading ,
- dis mayed ,
- dis-mayed ,
- more astonished ,
- more dismayed ,
- more jarred ,
- more percussive ,
- most astonished ,
- most dismayed ,
- most jarred ,
- most percussive .
- faint hearted ,
- in adequate ,
- in effective ,
- in effectual ,
- in vertebrate ,
- in-adequate ,
- in-effective ,
- in-effectual ,
- in-vertebrate ,
- invertebrate ,
- lily livered ,
- lilylivered ,
- more amoebalike ,
- more faint hearted ,
- more faint-hearted ,
- more forceless ,
- more invertebrate ,
- more pithless ,
- more weak kneed ,
- more weak-kneed ,
- more weakkneed ,
- more yellow bellied ,
- more yellow-bellied ,
- more yellowbellied ,
- most amoebalike ,
- most faint hearted ,
- most faint-hearted ,
- most forceless ,
- most invertebrate ,
- most pithless ,
- most weak kneed ,
- most weak-kneed ,
- most weakkneed ,
- most yellow bellied ,
- most yellow-bellied ,
- most yellowbellied ,
- sub missive ,
- weak kneed ,
- weak willed ,
- weak-kneed ,
- weak-willed ,
- weakkneed ,
- weakwilled ,
- yellow bellied ,
- yellowbellied .
Other synonyms:
- Chippy ,
- finical ,
- oversensitive ,
- prude ,
- prudery ,
- thin-skinned .
- hypersensitive ,
- moody ,
- sensibility ,
- touchy .
- defensive .
- sensitivity .
Other relevant words:
- Boggling ,
- Chicken-hearted ,
- Demurring ,
- Finicking ,
- Finikin ,
- Lickerish ,
- Puristic ,
- Queerish ,
- Refusing ,
- Repelled ,
- Restiff ,
- Revolted ,
- Sickened ,
- Squeasy ,
- Stickling ,
- Valetudinary ,
- accept ,
- adverse ,
- adversely ,
- ailing ,
- airiness ,
- airsick ,
- anal ,
- annoyed ,
- astutely ,
- awfully ,
- awkwardness ,
- backward ,
- badly ,
- barfy ,
- bashful ,
- bedridden ,
- buoyancy ,
- canny ,
- captious ,
- carsick ,
- cautious ,
- censorious ,
- chary ,
- chicken ,
- choiceness ,
- choosey ,
- circumspect ,
- circumspection ,
- confined ,
- costly ,
- courteous ,
- cowardly ,
- coy ,
- craven ,
- critically ,
- daintiness ,
- dastardly ,
- decent ,
- decorous ,
- delicacy ,
- delight ,
- demure ,
- difficult ,
- diffident ,
- diplomacy ,
- discernment ,
- discretion ,
- diseased ,
- disgusted ,
- dislike ,
- distressingly ,
- dizzy ,
- easily disgusted ,
- effeminate ,
- elegance ,
- erroneously ,
- evilly ,
- exquisite ,
- faltering ,
- fearful ,
- fine ,
- fineness ,
- finesse ,
- firmly ,
- formal ,
- fragility ,
- fuddy-duddy ,
- genteel ,
- gingerly ,
- gracious ,
- gravely ,
- guarded ,
- hardly ,
- harshly ,
- hesitating ,
- hurtfully ,
- iii ,
- ill ,
- in hospital ,
- inauspiciously ,
- incorrectly ,
- indifferent ,
- invalided ,
- involuntary ,
- keenly ,
- laggard ,
- laid up ,
- lily-livered ,
- loth ,
- lovingly ,
- melee ,
- mistakenly ,
- modest ,
- nauseated ,
- nauseous ,
- nervous ,
- nice ,
- niminy-piminy ,
- nit-picking ,
- obnoxiously ,
- offended ,
- offensively ,
- old maid ,
- old-maidish ,
- out of health ,
- over-modest ,
- over-nice ,
- overcritical ,
- overnice ,
- overrefined ,
- painstaking ,
- pawky ,
- pernickety ,
- pitifully ,
- poorly ,
- powderiness ,
- precious ,
- prissy ,
- pukish ,
- puritanical ,
- pusillanimous ,
- qualmy ,
- queer ,
- querulous ,
- refined ,
- remiss ,
- repugnant ,
- restive ,
- rigid ,
- sadly ,
- sagaciously ,
- sarcastically ,
- scramble ,
- scrum ,
- scrummage ,
- seasick ,
- seedy ,
- sensitively ,
- seriously ,
- severely ,
- shaky ,
- sharply ,
- shrewdly ,
- shrinking ,
- shy ,
- shy of ,
- sick ,
- sick to one's stomach ,
- sickish ,
- sickly ,
- skillful ,
- slack ,
- sorely ,
- spineless ,
- spiritless ,
- square-toed ,
- sternly ,
- stiff ,
- straight-laced ,
- straightlaced ,
- strait-laced ,
- straitlaced ,
- strict ,
- strictly ,
- strongly ,
- supercritical ,
- susceptible ,
- tasty ,
- tenderly ,
- tentative ,
- ticklish ,
- tidbit ,
- tight-laced ,
- timid ,
- timorous ,
- twee ,
- under the weather ,
- unsettled ,
- unwell ,
- upset ,
- vertiginous ,
- victorian ,
- vigorously ,
- wary ,
- watchful ,
- weakness ,
- white-livered ,
- wimpish ,
- wrongly ,
- yellow ,
- yellow-bellied .
- Pithless ,
- amoebalike ,
- be coming ,
- be fitting ,
- conscionable ,
- delicate ,
- faint-hearted ,
- fastidious ,
- finicky ,
- forceless ,
- full up ,
- fussbudget ,
- fussy ,
- grossed out ,
- had bellyful ,
- had enough ,
- had it ,
- mincing ,
- over-wrought ,
- overfastidious ,
- overmodest ,
- overprotective ,
- percussive ,
- picky-picky ,
- reluctant ,
- sick and tired of ,
- sick of ,
- too-too ,
- uneager ,
- up here ,
- up to here .
- blue .
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How to use "Squeamish" in context?
The word "squeamish" describes someone who is excessively concerned about their own physical or emotional well-being. This involves a strong dislike or fear of certain types of stimuli, such as blood, wounds, or physical pain. Those with this condition might avoid certain activities or situations because they fear they will become ill or hurt.
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Homophones for Squeamish:
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