qualm
qualm is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 31 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton.
- 2.Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon.
- 3.A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alacrity
- aversation
- averseness
- backwardness
- conscience
- delicacy
- demur
- disinclination
- dislike
- dissent
- hesitation
- indifference
- indisposedness
- indisposition
- indocility
- irresolution
- nolition
- nolleity
- obstinacy
- readiness
- recoil
- refusal
- reluctance
- renitence
- renitency
- scruple
- scrupulosity
- shrinking
- slowness
- twinge
- want
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is qualm.
- What is a sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton called?
- What is especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon called?
- What is a prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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