Squeamish vs Neurotic - What's the difference?
squeamish | neurotic |
easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous
Affected with a neurosis.
(lb) Overly anxious.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men,!”
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(lb) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
As adjectives the difference between squeamish and neurotic
is that squeamish is easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous while neurotic is affected with a neurosis.As a noun neurotic is
a person who has a neurosis.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.
