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
- choking
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- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx) related words >
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- asphyxia,
- asphyxiation,
- bar,
- barrier,
- blank wall,
- blind alley,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blurred,
- bottleneck,
- breathy,
- burking,
- burning out,
- burnout,
- cecum,
- choke,
- choked,
- choking off,
- clog,
- congestion,
- constipation,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- controlling,
- costiveness,
- counterproductive,
- croaking,
- crosswise,
- cul-de-sac,
- damping,
- dead end,
- deracination,
- dousing,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- drowning,
- dying,
- dysphonic,
- elimination,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- eradication,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- fire fighting,
- flame-out,
- garrote,
- going out,
- gorge,
- guttural,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- hoarse,
- impasse,
- impediment,
- in the way,
- inarticulate,
- indistinct,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- jam,
- killing,
- liquidation,
- lisping,
- liver death,
- megadeath,
- mispronounced,
- muzzy,
- nasal,
- negation,
- nullification,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstructing,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- purge,
- putting out,
- quashing,
- quavering,
- quenching,
- repressive,
- restrictive,
- rooting out,
- sealing off,
- serum death,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- silencing,
- smotheration,
- smothering,
- snuffing,
- snuffing out,
- snuffling,
- squashing,
- squelching,
- starvation,
- stifled,
- stifling,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strangled,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- suffocation,
- suppression,
- suppressive,
- thick,
- throaty,
- throttling,
- tremulous,
- troublesome,
- twangy,
- uprooting,
- velar,
- violent death,
- voiding,
- watery grave
- indistinct
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- not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do" related words >
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- alike,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- barely audible,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- breathy,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- choked,
- choking,
- clear as mud,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- croaking,
- dark,
- decrescendo,
- dim,
- disordered,
- distant,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dysphonic,
- equivocal,
- faint,
- faint-voiced,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- foggy,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- gentle,
- guttural,
- half-heard,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- hoarse,
- ill-defined,
- illegible,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inarticulate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscernible,
- indistinctive,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- inseparable,
- interchangeable,
- lax,
- lisping,
- loose,
- low,
- low-profile,
- merely glimpsed,
- mispronounced,
- misty,
- muddy,
- muffled,
- murky,
- murmured,
- muzzy,
- nasal,
- nebulous,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- pale,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- quavering,
- random,
- scarcely heard,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- snuffling,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- standard,
- stereotyped,
- stifled,
- stochastic,
- strangled,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- sweeping,
- thick,
- throaty,
- transcendent,
- tremulous,
- twangy,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undifferentiated,
- undiscriminated,
- undistinguishable,
- undistinguished,
- uniform,
- unintelligible,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- veiled,
- velar,
- weak,
- weak-voiced,
- whispered,
- without distinction
- 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
- guttural
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- a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat
- relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds" related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- blurred,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- breathy,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- choked,
- choking,
- close,
- coarse,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- cracked,
- croaking,
- croaky,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dry,
- dysphonic,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- gruff,
- hard,
- harsh,
- harsh-sounding,
- hawking,
- heavy,
- high,
- hoarse,
- husky,
- inarticulate,
- indistinct,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lisping,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- metallic,
- mid,
- mispronounced,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- muzzy,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- quavering,
- ragged,
- raucid,
- raucous,
- retroflex,
- rough,
- rounded,
- roupy,
- rude,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- snuffling,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- squawking,
- squawky,
- stertorous,
- stifled,
- stop,
- stopped,
- strangled,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tinny,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- tremulous,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- nasal
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- an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- asthmatic,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- blurred,
- breathing,
- breathy,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- choked,
- choking,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- croaking,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dysphonic,
- epenthetic vowel,
- errhine,
- expiratory,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- heaving,
- heavy,
- high,
- hoarse,
- huffing,
- inarticulate,
- indistinct,
- inspiratory,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lisping,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- mispronounced,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- muzzy,
- narrow,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- panting,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- pneumonic,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- puffing,
- pulmonary,
- pulmonic,
- quavering,
- respiratory,
- retroflex,
- rhinal,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- sneezy,
- sniffling,
- sniffly,
- sniffy,
- snoring,
- snorting,
- snuffling,
- snuffly,
- snuffy,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- sternutatory,
- stertorous,
- stifled,
- stop,
- stopped,
- strangled,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- tremulous,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wheezing,
- wheezy,
- wide
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