noun. An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action.

noun. A unit of apothecary weight equal to about 1.3 grams, or 20 grains.

noun. A minute part or amount.

intransitive verb. To hesitate as a result of conscience or principle.

noun. Perplexity, trouble, or uneasiness of conscience; hesitation or reluctance in acting, arising from inability to satisfy conscience, or from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt; backwardness in deciding or acting.

noun. A unit of weight, the third part of a dram, being ounce in apothecaries' weight, where alone it is now used by English-speaking people: this is 20 grains (= 1.296 grams).

noun. A small fraction.

noun. Eighteen seconds of time.

noun. One twelfth of an inch; a line.

noun. One tenth of a geometrical inch.

noun. A digit; the twelfth part of the sun's or moon's diameter.

noun. Hence, figuratively

noun. A small part; a little of anything, chiefly in negative phrases: sometimes confused with scruple.

To have scruples; be reluctant as regards action or decision; hesitate about doing a thing; doubt; especially, to have conscientious doubts.

Synonyms Scruple, Hesitate, Waver. We waver through irresolution, and hesitate through fear, if only the fear of making a mistake. Scruple has tended more and more to limitation to a reluctance produced by doubt as to the right or the propriety of the thing proposed.

To have scruples about; doubt; hesitate with regard to; question; especially, to have conscientious doubts concerning: chiefly with an infinitive as object (now the only common use).

transitive verb. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

transitive verb. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

intransitive verb. To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

noun. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

noun. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

noun. Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

noun. to hesitate from conscientious motives; to scruple.

noun. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

noun. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

noun. Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience; to consider if something is ethical.

noun. A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.

noun. A measurement of time. Hebrew culture broke the hour into 1080 scruples.

verb. To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

verb. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

verb. To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).

verb. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

verb. hesitate on moral grounds

noun. a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains

noun. an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

verb. raise scruples

verb. have doubts about

noun. uneasiness about the fitness of an action

"It's interesting to note that the term "scruple" had at least three different definitions—and not all were for weight."

scruples of emergence  scruples of half duration  scruples of incidence  to make scruple  to stand on scruple  

scrupled  scrupling  

anxiety  apothecaries' unit  apothecaries' weight  fret  fuss  

n-tuple  pupil  quadruple  

bashfulness  circumspection  compunction  coquetry  diffidence  

Pyrrhonism  ace  apprehension  atom  awake a doubt  

scrupled  scruples  scrupling