Definitions of qualm [ˈkwɒl ɪ ti]

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Definition of 'qualm'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) qualm
an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction:
He has no qualms about lying.

2. qualm
a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving.

3. qualm
a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, esp. of nausea.

Etymology: (1520–30)

Definition of 'qualm'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) scruple, qualm, misgiving
uneasiness about the fitness of an action

2. (noun) queasiness, squeamishness, qualm
a mild state of nausea

Definition of 'qualm'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) qualm
sickness; disease; pestilence; death

2. (noun) qualm
a sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony

3. (noun) qualm
especially, a sudden sensation of nausea

4. (noun) qualm
a prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction

Translation of 'qualm'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a feeling of uncertainty about whether one is doing right She had no qualms about reporting her husband's crime to the police.
Afrikaans: bedenking, gewetensbeswaa	Arabic: إرْتِياب، هاجِس، وَسْواس	Bulgarian: безпокойство
Brazilian: escrúpulo	Czech: skrupule	German: das Bedenken
Danish: betænkelighed	Greek: ενδοιασμός	Spanish: escrúpulo
Estonian: kõhklus	Farsi: دودلی	Finnish: epäily
French: scrupule	Hebrew: נְקִיפוֹת מַצפּוּן	Hindi: सन्देह
Croatian: sumnja, slutnja	Hungarian: lelkiismeret-furdalás	Indonesian: keraguan
Icelandic: efasemd	Italian: scrupolo	Japanese: 気のとがめ
Korean: 양심의 가책	Lithuanian: būgštavimas, dvejonė	Latvian: šaubas; bažas
Malay: rasa ragu-ragu	Dutch: gewetensbezwaar	Norwegian: betenkelighet, samvittigh
Polish: skrupuł	Persian: دودلی	Pashto: ناڅاپي خواګرځى (قى)، ضعف،
Portuguese: escrúpulo	Romanian: scrupul;şovăială	Russian: сомнение
Slovak: pochybnosť	Slovenian: pomislek	Serbian: sumnja
Swedish: betänklighet, kval	Thai: ความรู้สึกไม่สบายใจ	Turkish: endişe, huzursuzluk
Taiwanese: 疑慮(尤其是對所做的事是否正確的疑慮)	Ukrainian: сумнів у своїй правоті	Urdu: ضمیر کی خلش
Vietnamese: nỗi băn khoăn	Chinese: 疑虑（尤其是对所做的事是否正确的疑虑）
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