Related Words:
- skittish
collapse - unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) related words >
- 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
- Siberian,
- adiabatic absorption,
- adiabatic demagnetization,
- adiabatic expansion,
- air conditioning,
- air cooling,
- algid,
- algific,
- anhydration,
- arctic,
- below zero,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- blast freezing,
- blast-freezing,
- bleak,
- boreal,
- bottling,
- brining,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- canning,
- chill,
- chilling,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- congealing,
- congealment,
- congelation,
- cooling,
- corning,
- crisp,
- cryogenics,
- curing,
- cutting,
- deep freezing,
- dehydration,
- dehydrofreezing,
- desiccation,
- dry-curing,
- drying,
- electric refrigeration,
- embalming,
- evaporation,
- food freezing,
- freezable,
- freeze-drying,
- freezing cold,
- frigid,
- frigorific,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- fuming,
- gas refrigeration,
- gelid,
- glaciable,
- glacial,
- glaciation,
- glacification,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- hyperboreal,
- hyperborean,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy,
- inclement,
- infrigidation,
- irradiation,
- jerking,
- keen,
- marination,
- mechanical refrigeration,
- mummification,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- numbing,
- penetrating,
- perishing,
- pickling,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- polar,
- potting,
- quick freezing,
- quick-freezing,
- raw,
- reduction of temperature,
- refreezing,
- refrigerant,
- refrigeration,
- refrigerative,
- refrigeratory,
- regelation,
- rigorous,
- salting,
- seasoning,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sharp freezing,
- sharp-freezing,
- shivering,
- shivery,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- smoking,
- snappy,
- stone-cold,
- stuffing,
- subzero,
- super-cooling,
- supercooled,
- taxidermy,
- tinning,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry
- frosty
collapse
- covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner related words >
- Olympian,
- affectless,
- aloof,
- anesthetized,
- arctic,
- argent,
- argentine,
- autistic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- blunt,
- canescent,
- catatonic,
- chalky,
- chill,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold-blooded,
- coldhearted,
- constrained,
- cool,
- cretaceous,
- detached,
- disaccordant,
- discreet,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- drugged,
- dull,
- emotionally dead,
- emotionless,
- exclusive,
- expressionless,
- fleecy-white,
- forbidding,
- freezing,
- frigid,
- frost-beaded,
- frost-chequered,
- frost-covered,
- frost-fettered,
- frost-rent,
- frostbound,
- frosted,
- frostlike,
- frosty-faced,
- frozen,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- guarded,
- heartless,
- hoar,
- hoar-frosted,
- hoary,
- icy,
- immovable,
- impassible,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incompatible,
- inexcitable,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insusceptible,
- introverted,
- lactescent,
- lily-white,
- marble,
- marmoreal,
- milky,
- modest,
- nippy,
- niveous,
- nonemotional,
- objective,
- obtuse,
- offish,
- out of touch,
- passionless,
- platinum,
- pure white,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rime-frosted,
- rimed,
- seclusive,
- self-absorbed,
- semidiaphanous,
- semiopaque,
- semipellucid,
- semitransparent,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- silver,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- snow-white,
- snowy,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- strained,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- swan-white,
- tense,
- unaffable,
- unaffectionate,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- uncordial,
- undemonstrative,
- unemotional,
- unexpansive,
- unfeeling,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unimpassioned,
- unimpressionable,
- unloving,
- unpassionate,
- unresponding,
- unresponsive,
- unsociable,
- unsusceptible,
- unsympathetic,
- untouchable,
- white,
- white as snow,
- withdrawn
- icy
collapse
- covered with or containing or consisting of ice; "icy northern waters"
- shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; "roads and trees glazed with an icy film" related words >
- Olympian,
- Siberian,
- affectless,
- algid,
- aloof,
- anesthetized,
- arctic,
- autistic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- below zero,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- blank,
- blast-frozen,
- bleak,
- blunt,
- boreal,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- catatonic,
- chill,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- cold-blooded,
- coldhearted,
- congealed,
- constrained,
- cool,
- crisp,
- cutting,
- detached,
- disaccordant,
- discreet,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- drugged,
- dull,
- emotionally dead,
- emotionless,
- exclusive,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- freezing,
- freezing cold,
- frigid,
- frostbitten,
- frosted,
- frostnipped,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- frozen solid,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- guarded,
- heartless,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- hyperborean,
- ice,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy-cold,
- immovable,
- impassible,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- inclement,
- incompatible,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insusceptible,
- introverted,
- keen,
- modest,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- nonemotional,
- numbing,
- objective,
- obtuse,
- offish,
- out of touch,
- passionless,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- quick-frozen,
- raw,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigorous,
- seclusive,
- self-absorbed,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sharp-frozen,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- snappy,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stone-cold,
- strained,
- subdued,
- subzero,
- supercooled,
- suppressed,
- tense,
- unaffable,
- unaffectionate,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- uncordial,
- undemonstrative,
- unemotional,
- unexpansive,
- unfeeling,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unimpassioned,
- unimpressionable,
- unloving,
- unpassionate,
- unresponding,
- unresponsive,
- unsociable,
- unsusceptible,
- unsympathetic,
- untouchable,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry,
- withdrawn
- flimsy
collapse
- having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
- lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"
- resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
- very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses" related words >
- adulterated,
- airy,
- asinine,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- catchpenny,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- cut,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphanous,
- dilapidated,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- effeminate,
- empty,
- ethereal,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- fissile,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- foolish,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- idle,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- inconceivable,
- inconclusive,
- incredible,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- lacy,
- lax,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limp,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- misty,
- namby-pamby,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- otiose,
- paltry,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- poor,
- puny,
- ramshackle,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- relaxed,
- rickety,
- rubbery,
- scissile,
- shaky,
- shallow,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- shivery,
- silly,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- splintery,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tacky,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- transparent,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unbelievable,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconvincing,
- unproved,
- unrigorous,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- unsustained,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vain,
- vapid,
- vaporous,
- vulnerable,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy,
- womanish
- 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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