'Skittish' definitions:
Definition of 'skittish'
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Definition of 'Skittish'
From: GCIDE
- Skittish \Skit"tish\, a. [See Skit, v. t.]
- 1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Skit"tish*ly}, adv. -- {Skit"tish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'skittish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- animated,
- antic,
- bashful,
- capersome,
- changeable,
- coltish,
- combustible,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coquettish,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- delicate,
- demure,
- diffident,
- dizzy,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty-headed,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- exuberant,
- faddish,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fickle,
- flighty,
- flirtatious,
- frisky,
- frivolous,
- frolicsome,
- full of beans,
- gamesome,
- gay,
- giddy,
- goosy,
- harebrained,
- hearty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- inconstant,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irresponsible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jumpy,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lively,
- mercurial,
- mettlesome,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perturbable,
- playful,
- prickly,
- quicksilver,
- rabbity,
- rattlebrained,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restive,
- rollicking,
- rollicksome,
- rompish,
- scary,
- scatterbrained,
- self-conscious,
- sensitive,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- spirited,
- sportive,
- sprightly,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- toying,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- undependable,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- vacillating,
- versatile,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- zestful,
- zippy