'Mousy' definitions:
Definition of 'mousy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Quiet and timid and ineffectual [syn: mousy, mousey]
adjective
Infested with mice [syn: mousy, mousey]
adjective
Of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse- colored hair" [syn: mousy, mousey, mouse-colored, mouselike]
Definition of 'Mousy'
From: GCIDE
- Mousy \Mous"y\ (mouz"[y^]), a. Infested with mice; smelling of mice. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mousy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acier,
- afraid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- bashful,
- brown,
- brownish,
- canescent,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- cinereous,
- cinerous,
- colorless,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- cowering,
- coy,
- dapple,
- dapple-gray,
- dappled,
- dappled-gray,
- daunted,
- demure,
- diffident,
- dingy,
- dismal,
- dismayed,
- dove-colored,
- dove-gray,
- drab,
- dreary,
- dull,
- dun,
- dusty,
- echoless,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- flat,
- funking,
- funky,
- glaucescent,
- glaucous,
- goosy,
- gray,
- gray-black,
- gray-brown,
- gray-colored,
- gray-drab,
- gray-green,
- gray-spotted,
- gray-toned,
- gray-white,
- grayed,
- grayish,
- grey,
- griseous,
- grizzle,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- henhearted,
- hush as death,
- hushed,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- inaudible,
- intimidated,
- iron-gray,
- jumpy,
- lead-gray,
- leaden,
- lily-livered,
- livid,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mouse-colored,
- mouse-gray,
- mouselike,
- mousey,
- nervous,
- noiseless,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pearl,
- pearl-gray,
- pearly,
- pigeonhearted,
- plain,
- Quaker-colored,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- ratty,
- rodent,
- rodential,
- sad,
- scary,
- self-conscious,
- self-effacing,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- silent,
- silver,
- silver-gray,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slate-colored,
- slaty,
- smoke-gray,
- smoky,
- sober,
- soft,
- somber,
- soundless,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- steel-gray,
- steely,
- still,
- still as death,
- stilly,
- stone-colored,
- subaudible,
- taupe,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unarticulated,
- unhearable,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unpronounced,
- unsounded,
- unuttered,
- unvocalized,
- unvoiced,
- verminous,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- whist,
- white-livered,
- yellow