qualm

Other forms of qualm

plural

qualms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about qualm

What does qualm mean?

qualm means "uneasiness about the fitness of an action". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in qualm?

qualm has 1 syllable: qualm.

What is another word for qualm?

Close synonyms include scruple, misgiving, queasiness, squeamishness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is qualm a common word?

qualm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.