Entry Word: qualm

Function: noun

Meaning: an uneasy feeling about the rightness of what one is doing or going to do <she had no qualms about selling her old term papers to other students, even though it was against the academic honor code>

Synonyms compunction, misgiving, scruple

Related Words conscience; distrust, doubt, mistrust, suspicion, uncertainty; qualmishness, unease, uneasiness; reluctance, unwillingness; demur, objection, protest; guilt, regret, remorse, self-reproach, shame; contrition, penitence, repentance

Near Antonyms aplomb, assurance, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness