Word Meanings - QUALM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who,

Additional info about word: QUALM

1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon. 4. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUALM)

• Nausea
• Loathing
• disgust
• abomination
• qualm
• sea-sickness
• Scruple
• Misgiving
• doubt
• hesitation
• reluctance
• question

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUALM)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• allow

Related words: (words related to QUALM)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• QUALM
  1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who,
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• NAUSEANT
  A substance which produces nausea.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.