Related Words:
- funky
collapse - in a state of cowardly fright
- stylish and modern in an unconventional way; "she likes funky clothes"; "we did it all in black and white in a very funky sixties style"
- (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues related words >
- afraid,
- atrabiliar,
- atrabilious,
- bad,
- bad-smelling,
- blue,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- foul,
- frowsty,
- frowsy,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- funking,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- graveolent,
- henhearted,
- high,
- ill-smelling,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- malodorous,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- moldy,
- mousy,
- musty,
- nidorous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- odorous,
- offensive,
- olid,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pensive,
- pigeonhearted,
- putrid,
- rabbity,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- soft,
- stale,
- stenchy,
- stinking,
- strong,
- stuffy,
- sulfurous,
- timid,
- timorous,
- tristful,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- vile,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- wistful,
- yellow
- agitated,
- ague,
- all shook up,
- all-overish,
- aquiver,
- aspen,
- bashful,
- bumpiness,
- chattering,
- chorea,
- cold shivers,
- cowardly,
- didder,
- diffident,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dithers,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgeting,
- fidgets,
- fidgety,
- fits and starts,
- flutter,
- fluttery,
- goosy,
- heaving,
- in a quiver,
- in fear,
- inquietude,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jerkiness,
- jittery,
- joltiness,
- jumpy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- palpitation,
- palsied,
- palsy,
- panting,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- quaking,
- quaver,
- quavering,
- quavery,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rabbity,
- restlessness,
- scary,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shiver,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shivery,
- shook up,
- shrinking,
- shudder,
- shuddering,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- spasms,
- startlish,
- succussatory,
- succussion,
- succussive,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- timid,
- timorous,
- tremble,
- trembly,
- tremor,
- tremulant,
- tremulous,
- tremulousness,
- trepidant,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trigger-happy,
- twitchy,
- twitter,
- twittery,
- unrest,
- vibrating,
- vibration,
- wobbly
- shivery
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- cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather" related words >
- agitated,
- aguey,
- aguish,
- algid,
- all shook up,
- all-overish,
- aquiver,
- arctic,
- aspen,
- bashful,
- blue with cold,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- chattering,
- chill,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- delicate,
- diffident,
- dithery,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fidgeting,
- fidgety,
- fissile,
- flimsy,
- fluttery,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- freezing,
- friable,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- frozen to death,
- goosy,
- half-frozen,
- in a quiver,
- in fear,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lacerable,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- nippy,
- palsied,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quavery,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rabbity,
- scary,
- scissile,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivering,
- shook up,
- shrinking,
- shuddering,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- splintery,
- startlish,
- succussatory,
- succussive,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- trembly,
- tremulant,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- vibrating,
- vulnerable,
- with chattering teeth,
- wobbly
- hesitant
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- lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly related words >
- afraid,
- agnostic,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- averse,
- backward,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- canny,
- capricious,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- circumspect,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- dicey,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- dithering,
- doubting,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- faltering,
- fickle,
- fluctuating,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- halting,
- heedful,
- hesitating,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indisposed,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- loath,
- mindful,
- modest,
- noncommittal,
- of two minds,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pause,
- pawky,
- politic,
- polysemous,
- prudent,
- qualmish,
- regardful,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- slow to act,
- squeamish,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- timid,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- unadventurous,
- uncertain,
- uncommunicative,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undaring,
- undecided,
- undivinable,
- uneager,
- unenterprising,
- unforeseeable,
- unpersuaded,
- unprecipitate,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- unwilling,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- variable,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- wobbly
- inarticulate
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- without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry" related words >
- Greek to one,
- ambiguous,
- anaudic,
- aphasic,
- aphonic,
- bashful,
- beyond understanding,
- blurred,
- breathless,
- breathy,
- choked,
- choking,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coy,
- croaking,
- demure,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- disjointed,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dumb,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstricken,
- dumbstruck,
- dysphonic,
- faltering,
- garbled,
- guttural,
- halting,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- hesitating,
- hoarse,
- illogical,
- impenetrable,
- implicit,
- implied,
- incognizable,
- incoherent,
- incomprehensible,
- indistinct,
- inferred,
- inscrutable,
- irrational,
- jumbled,
- lisping,
- maundering,
- mispronounced,
- mixed-up,
- mousy,
- muddled,
- muffled,
- mum,
- mumbled,
- mumbling,
- mute,
- muzzy,
- nasal,
- numinous,
- past comprehension,
- quavering,
- rambling,
- scrambled,
- self-conscious,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shy,
- silent,
- skittish,
- snuffling,
- speechless,
- stammering,
- stifled,
- strangled,
- stricken dumb,
- thick,
- throaty,
- timid,
- timorous,
- tongue-tied,
- tongueless,
- tremulous,
- twangy,
- unclear,
- unconnected,
- undeclared,
- unexpressed,
- unfathomable,
- unintelligible,
- unknowable,
- unsaid,
- unsearchable,
- unspoken,
- unuttered,
- velar,
- voiceless,
- wild,
- wordless
- retiring
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- not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl" related words >
- Olympian,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- boat-shaped,
- boatlike,
- bowl-shaped,
- bowllike,
- cavelike,
- cavernous,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- concave,
- concaved,
- constrained,
- cool,
- coy,
- craterlike,
- cup-shaped,
- cupped,
- cymbiform,
- declining,
- demure,
- detached,
- diffident,
- diminishing,
- discreet,
- dish-shaped,
- dished,
- dishing,
- dishlike,
- distant,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- expressionless,
- fading,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- funnel-breasted,
- funnel-chested,
- funnel-shaped,
- guarded,
- hollow,
- hollowed,
- humble,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- incurvous,
- infundibular,
- infundibuliform,
- introverted,
- meek,
- modest,
- navicular,
- naviform,
- offish,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- receding,
- reclusive,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retreating,
- saucer-shaped,
- scaphoid,
- scyphate,
- self-effacing,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinking,
- spoonlike,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- subdued,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- suppressed,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unassertive,
- unassuming,
- unassured,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- unpretentious,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- waning,
- withdrawn
- alternate,
- back and fill,
- bob,
- bobble,
- careen,
- change,
- changeable,
- chop and change,
- coggle,
- dally,
- dallying,
- dangle,
- demurring,
- dickey,
- dillydallying,
- dither,
- double-minded,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- ebb and flow,
- eccentric,
- equivocate,
- erratic,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fickle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- flounder,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuate,
- fluctuating,
- flutter,
- go through phases,
- halt,
- halting,
- hang in doubt,
- hem and haw,
- hesitant,
- hesitate,
- hesitating,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- insecure,
- irresolute,
- librate,
- lurch,
- mercurial,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- oscillating,
- pendulate,
- pendulous,
- pitch,
- reel,
- resonate,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- rootless,
- seesaw,
- shake,
- shaky,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- stagger,
- stop to consider,
- swag,
- sway,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tentative,
- tergiversate,
- think twice,
- timid,
- toss,
- totter,
- turn,
- uncertain,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- vary,
- vibrate,
- volatile,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wave,
- waver,
- wavering,
- wax and wane,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- whiffle,
- wigwag,
- wobble,
- wobbly
- cowardly
collapse
- lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley related words >
- abulic,
- afraid,
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bashful,
- bloodless,
- caitiff,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowed,
- craven,
- dastardly,
- daunted,
- debilitated,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- effete,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- faintish,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- frail,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- gone,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- in fear,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jumpy,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lily-livered,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- namby-pamby,
- nerveless,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pithless,
- pliable,
- poltroon,
- poltroonish,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- recreant,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- scared,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinewless,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slack,
- soft,
- spineless,
- spunkless,
- startlish,
- strengthless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unhardened,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- vile,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- weakly,
- white-livered,
- worthless,
- yellow
- bashful
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- disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
- self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound related words >
- Olympian,
- abashed,
- aloof,
- autistic,
- awkward,
- backward,
- blank,
- blushful,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- close,
- cold,
- confused,
- conscious,
- constrained,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- demure,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- dissociable,
- distant,
- embarrassed,
- expressionless,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- icy,
- ill at ease,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in a tizzy,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- inarticulate,
- incompatible,
- insociable,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- meek,
- modest,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- nongregarious,
- offish,
- qualmish,
- rabbity,
- recoiling,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- scary,
- scrupulous,
- self-conscious,
- self-contained,
- self-effacing,
- self-sufficient,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- sheepish,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- squeamish,
- stammering,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- sullen,
- suppressed,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unassertive,
- unassuming,
- unassured,
- unclubbable,
- uncomfortable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- unconfident,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- uneasy,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unostentatious,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn
- shrinking
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- the act of becoming less
- process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" related words >
- Olympian,
- Sanforizing,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- backward,
- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- blank,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- compunction,
- constrained,
- consumption,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- declining,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- diminishing,
- discreet,
- distant,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- expressionless,
- fading,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- modest,
- modesty,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- objection,
- offish,
- parching,
- pause,
- preshrinkage,
- protest,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- receding,
- recoil,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- scary,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulous,
- scrupulousness,
- searing,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinkage,
- shriveling,
- shy,
- shyness,
- sinking,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squeamish,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- thinning,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- waning,
- wasting,
- withdrawn,
- withering
- unmanned
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- lacking a crew; "an unmanned satellite to Mars" related words >
- abandoned,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- appalled,
- ashen,
- astounded,
- available,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- blanched,
- castrated,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- crushed,
- dashed,
- daunted,
- deadly pale,
- debilitated,
- demasculinized,
- demoralized,
- deserted,
- devitalized,
- dismayed,
- effeminized,
- emasculate,
- emasculated,
- enervated,
- eunuchized,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- forsaken,
- free,
- frozen,
- funking,
- funky,
- gelded,
- godforsaken,
- gray with fear,
- henhearted,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nerveless,
- neurasthenic,
- open,
- overcome,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- paralyzed,
- petrified,
- pigeonhearted,
- pithless,
- prostrate,
- prostrated,
- rabbity,
- reduced to jelly,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- shaken,
- shot,
- shot to pieces,
- sinewless,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- stricken,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- tenantless,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- timid,
- timorous,
- undone,
- unfilled,
- unglued,
- uninhabited,
- unmanly,
- unnerved,
- unoccupied,
- unpeopled,
- unpopulated,
- unsexed,
- unstaffed,
- unstrung,
- untaken,
- untenanted,
- untended,
- upset,
- vacant,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- skittish
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- 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
- bloat,
- bloating,
- bolting,
- breaking point,
- cautious,
- clarification,
- colature,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- corruption,
- demurring,
- destructive distillation,
- diffident,
- distension,
- distillation,
- distortion,
- draining,
- drudging,
- edulcoration,
- effusion,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- equivocation,
- essentialization,
- exaggeration,
- excretion,
- exfiltration,
- exhausting,
- extraction,
- extravasation,
- extreme tension,
- exudation,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- faltering,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- filtering,
- filtration,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- grueling,
- hardworking,
- haul,
- heave,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- inflation,
- jibbing,
- killing,
- laboring,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misinterpretation,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misuse,
- ooze,
- oozing,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overexertion,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstress,
- overstretching,
- overtaxing,
- pegging,
- percolating,
- percolation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- prevarication,
- pull,
- punishing,
- purification,
- rack,
- refinement,
- riddling,
- screening,
- scrupling,
- seep,
- seepage,
- separation,
- shilly-shallying,
- sieving,
- sifting,
- slanting,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- snapping point,
- spiritualization,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- strain,
- stress,
- stress and strain,
- stressful,
- stressfulness,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- striving,
- struggling,
- sublimation,
- sweating,
- swelling,
- taxing,
- tension,
- tentative,
- timid,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toiling,
- toilsome,
- torturing,
- transudation,
- trying,
- tug,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weep,
- weeping,
- winnowing,
- working
- conscious
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- knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed"
- intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" related words >
- aboveground,
- advertent,
- advised,
- agog,
- aimed,
- aimed at,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive and kicking,
- alive to,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all-knowing,
- among the living,
- animate,
- animated,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- apprehending,
- apprehensive,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- au courant,
- awake,
- aware,
- bashful,
- breathing,
- calculated,
- capable of life,
- careful,
- cognizant,
- comprehending,
- concentrated,
- confused,
- considered,
- contemplated,
- conversant,
- coy,
- deliberate,
- deliberated,
- demure,
- designed,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- endowed with life,
- enlivened,
- envisaged,
- envisioned,
- existent,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- heedful,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- impressive,
- in the flesh,
- inarticulate,
- insightful,
- inspirited,
- instinct with life,
- intelligent,
- intended,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentional,
- intentive,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- live,
- living,
- long-lived,
- mannered,
- meant,
- meditated,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mousy,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noticing,
- observant,
- observing,
- of design,
- omniscient,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- perceiving,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- planned,
- prehensile,
- projected,
- proposed,
- purposed,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- quick,
- receptive,
- regardful,
- sagacious,
- self-conscious,
- sensible,
- sensile,
- sensitive to,
- sentient,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- skittish,
- stammering,
- studied,
- susceptible,
- susceptive,
- teleological,
- tenacious of life,
- timid,
- timorous,
- understanding,
- up,
- very much alive,
- viable,
- vigilant,
- vital,
- vivified,
- voluntary,
- watchful,
- wide-awake,
- willful,
- wise,
- witting,
- zoetic
- cautious
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- cautious in attitude and careful in actions; prudent; "a cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing everything she was told"
- showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"
- avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" related words >
- alert,
- ambling,
- attentive,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- considerate,
- cozy,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- easy,
- expedient,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- foresighted,
- forethoughtful,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- guarded,
- halting,
- hard of belief,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- impervious to persuasion,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- indolent,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loving,
- lumbering,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- precautious,
- provident,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scheming,
- scrupling,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrewd,
- shuffling,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- solicitous,
- staggering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprecipitate,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- waddling,
- wary,
- watchful
- spineless
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- 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
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- 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
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