Usually means: Easily disgusted or made uneasy.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. squeamish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. squeamish, the squeamish: Merriam-Webster
  3. squeamish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. squeamish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. squeamish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. squeamish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Squeamish, squeamish: Wordnik
  8. squeamish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. squeamish: Wiktionary
  10. squeamish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. squeamish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. squeamish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. squeamish: Dictionary.com
  14. squeamish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. squeamish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Squeamish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. squeamish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. squeamish: Rhymezone
  19. squeamish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. squeamish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. squeamish: FreeDictionary.org
  22. squeamish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. squeamish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. squeamish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. squeamish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. squeamish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. squeamish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Easily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
adjective:  Averse or reluctant.

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