qualm UK /kwɑːm/US /kwɑ(l)m/noun 5verb 1forms 3 noun5 •A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc."Do you have any particular qualms about leaving Pencey?" / "Oh, I have a few qualms, all right. Sure … but not too many. Not yet, anyway.[…]" — 1951 •A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.This lawyer has no qualms about saving people who are on the wrong side of the law. •A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. •(dialect, no longer used) Mortality; plague; pestilence. •(dialect, no longer used) A calamity or disaster. verb1 •To have a sickly feeling. formsqualmed · qualming · qualms
