Squeamish vs Finical - What's the difference?
squeamish | finical | Related terms |
easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous
Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), (Ulysses) :
Squeamish is a related term of finical.
As adjectives the difference between squeamish and finical
is that squeamish is easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous while finical is finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.squeamish
English
Alternative forms
* sweamish, swaimish (dialectal) * squeimish, squemish, squeamous (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish about the sight of blood.
finical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Charming, he said in a finical sweet voice, showing his white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly.