scruple

n. மிகச்சிறிய அளவு, இருபதுநெல் எடைகொண்ட அளவு, கரும நாண், மனச்சாட்சிக் குத்தல், நுணுக்க ஐயப்பாடு, (வினை.) உளச்சான்றின் தடுப்புணர்ச்சி கொள், நாணுதல் செய், நுணுக்க ஐயப்பாடு கொள், நேர்மையுணர்ச்சி காரணமாக தீது செய்யத் தயங்கு.

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Synonyms

#noun misgiving, doubt, hesitation, qualm, reluctance, question #verb

Antonyms

#noun recklessness, unscrupulousness, confidence, assurance,self-satisfaction, self-approval, self-complacency #verb

Scru"ple, n. Etym: [L. scrupulus a small sharp or pointed stone, the twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to Gr. kshura: cf. F. scrupule.] 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will not bate thee a scruple. Shak. 3. Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience. He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples. Macaulay. To make scruple, to hesitate from conscientious motives; to scruple. Locke. Scru"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrupled; p. pr. & vb. n. Skrupling.] Defn: To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience. We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. Fuller. Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. South. Scru"ple, v. t. 1. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question. Others long before them . . . scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. Milton. 2. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple. [R.] Letters which did still scruple many of them. E. Symmons.

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