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Nauseous vs Qualmy - What's the difference?

nauseous | qualmy |

As adjectives the difference between nauseous and qualmy

is that nauseous is causing nausea; sickening or disgusting while qualmy is queasy; nauseous.

nauseous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
    • And then what proper person can be partial / To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
  • Afflicted with nausea; sick.
  • * 2010 , Tom Smith, The Guardian , 4 Sep 2010:
    • Is it a myth that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics? I often do and haven't felt remotely nauseous .

    Synonyms

    * nauseating - causing disgust rather than nausea

    See also

    * nauseated - afflicted with nausea * queasy

    qualmy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • queasy; nauseous
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=B. M. Bower, title=The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Weary, listening to the whistling and the shuffling of feet, felt a queer, qualmy feeling in the region of his diaphragm, and he yielded to a hunger for consolation and company in his misery. }}