Related Words:
- spineless
collapse - lacking spiny processes; "spineless fins" related words >
- abulic,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- afraid,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bloodless,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- chicken,
- cowardly,
- craven,
- dastardly,
- debilitated,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- eccentric,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- erratic,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- faintish,
- fast and loose,
- fearful,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floppy,
- fluctuating,
- forceless,
- frail,
- freakish,
- giddy,
- gone,
- gutless,
- imbecile,
- impetuous,
- impotent,
- impulsive,
- inadequate,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- infirm,
- invertebrate,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lily-livered,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- nerveless,
- pithless,
- pliable,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- pusillanimous,
- rambling,
- restless,
- roving,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- scatterbrained,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- soft,
- spasmodic,
- spiritless,
- squeamish,
- strengthless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unstrung,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakly,
- whimsical,
- white-livered,
- wishy-washy,
- yellow
- sissy
collapse
- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive related words >
- Lord Fauntleroy,
- Milquetoast,
- Percy,
- afraid,
- aunt,
- auntie,
- baby,
- big baby,
- blood brother,
- brethren,
- brother,
- bub,
- bubba,
- bud,
- buddy,
- chicken,
- chicken liver,
- chickenhearted,
- country cousin,
- cousin,
- cousin once removed,
- cousin twice removed,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- cream puff,
- crybaby,
- daughter,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- doormat,
- dull tool,
- effeminate,
- epicene,
- fainthearted,
- father,
- fearful,
- first cousin,
- foster brother,
- fraid-cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- frater,
- funk,
- funker,
- funking,
- funky,
- goody-goody,
- grandnephew,
- grandniece,
- granduncle,
- great-aunt,
- great-uncle,
- gutless wonder,
- half brother,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jellyfish,
- kid brother,
- lightweight,
- lily,
- lily liver,
- lily-livered,
- meek soul,
- milk-livered,
- milksop,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mollycoddle,
- mother,
- mouse,
- mousy,
- muliebrous,
- namby-pamby,
- nance,
- nancy,
- nebbish,
- nephew,
- niece,
- nonentity,
- nuncle,
- nunks,
- nunky,
- old woman,
- old-womanish,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- pigeonhearted,
- prissy,
- pushover,
- rabbity,
- sad sack,
- scaredy-cat,
- second cousin,
- sis,
- sissified,
- sissyish,
- sister,
- sister-german,
- sistern,
- soft,
- softling,
- softy,
- son,
- sop,
- stepbrother,
- stepsister,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unc,
- uncle,
- uncs,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- uterine brother,
- weak,
- weak sister,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- weakling,
- wet,
- white feather,
- white liver,
- white-livered,
- womanish,
- yellow
- fearful
collapse
- experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
- extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" related words >
- aflutter,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- alarming,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- appalling,
- apprehensive,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- awing,
- baleful,
- bashful,
- bothered,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- chilling,
- concerned,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- daunting,
- deadly,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diffident,
- dire,
- direful,
- discomposed,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disgusting,
- disheartening,
- dismayed,
- dismaying,
- disquieted,
- disquieting,
- disturbed,
- dreadful,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- foreboding,
- formidable,
- frightened,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- funking,
- funky,
- ghastly,
- goosy,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- heinous,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hideous,
- high-strung,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- howling,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in fear,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loathsome,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- malign,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- misgiving,
- monstrous,
- mousy,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overawing,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- overwhelming,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- perturbed,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- redoubtable,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rousing,
- scared,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shocking,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinister,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- solicitous,
- startling,
- startlish,
- strained,
- sublime,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- terrified,
- terrifying,
- terror-stricken,
- thumping,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremendous,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unspeakable,
- unwilling,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- whacking,
- white-livered,
- yellow,
- zealous
- mousy
collapse
- quiet and timid and ineffectual
- of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"
- infested with mice related words >
- Quaker-colored,
- 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,
- 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
- nervous
collapse
- easily agitated; "quick nervous movements"
- of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder" related words >
- acid,
- agitable,
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- biting,
- bothered,
- concerned,
- corrosive,
- cowardly,
- critical,
- cutting,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- diffident,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- driving,
- edgy,
- effective,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- goosy,
- gutsy,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- in a dither,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a tizzy,
- in fear,
- incisive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- misgiving,
- mordant,
- mousy,
- nerval,
- nerves on edge,
- nervy,
- neural,
- neurological,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- overtender,
- panicky,
- passible,
- penetrating,
- perturbable,
- perturbed,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- powerful,
- prickly,
- punchy,
- querulous,
- rabbity,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- scared,
- scary,
- sensational,
- sensitive,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slashing,
- snappish,
- solicitous,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- striking,
- strong,
- strung out,
- supersensitive,
- suspenseful,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- telling,
- tender,
- tense,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trenchant,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- worked up,
- worried,
- wrought up,
- zealous
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