What is another word for "skittish"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "skittish": and, arbitrary, background, bashful, bashfulness, beat, blow, blush, blushing, boutade, brain, bushel, camel, candle, capriccio, caprice, capricious, captious, cast, ceremony, chase, cold, constrained, constraint, contrary, countenance, coy, crotchet, crotchety, demure, demureness, deuce, diffidence, diffident, disposition, distance, draw, drum, eccentric, erratic.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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