skittish
skittish is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- 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
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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