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Synonyms for skittish
ˈskɪt ɪʃskit·tish
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Wiktionary
skittishadjective
Synonyms:
spookish, squirrelly, jumpyskittishadjective
Easily scared or startled; timid.
The cat likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
Synonyms:
squirrelly, spookish, jumpyskittishadjective
wanton; changeable; fickle
Skittish Fortune's hall. Shakespeare.
Synonyms:
squirrelly, jumpy, spookish
English Synonyms and Antonyms
skittish
Balky, mulish, obstinate, and stubborn are synonyms of restive only in an infrequent if not obsolete use; the supposed sense of "tending to rest," "standing stubbornly still," is scarcely supported by any examples, and those cited to support that meaning often fail to do so. The disposition to offer active resistance to control by any means whatever is what is commonly indicated by restive in the best English speech and literature. Dryden speaks of "the pampered colt" as "restiff to the rein;" but the rein is not used to propel a horse forward, but to hold him in, and it is against this that he is "restiff." A horse may be made restless by flies or by martial music, but with no refractoriness; the restive animal impatiently resists or struggles to break from control, as by bolting, flinging his rider, or otherwise. With this the metaphorical use of the word agrees, which is always in the sense of such terms as impatient, intractable, rebellious, and the like; a people restive under despotism are not disposed to "rest" under it, but to resist it and fling it off.
Synonyms:
balky, fidgety, fractious, fretful, frisky, impatient, intractable, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, restiff, restive, restless, stubborn, unruly, viciousAntonyms:
docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, passive, peaceable, quiet, submissive, tractable, yielding
Princeton's WordNet
skittish, flighty, spooky, nervousadjective
unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Synonyms:
flyaway, queasy, aflutter, flighty, uneasy, nervous, unquiet, neural, head-in-the-clouds, spooky, scatterbrained, anxiousAntonyms:
unexcitable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
skittishadjective
Synonyms:
shy (as a horse), timid, timorous, easily frightened
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "skittish":
temperamental, capricious, whimsical, spoilt, nervous, cranky
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#7366 | nervous | |
#9695 | neural | |
#13864 | anxious | |
#15992 | vicious | |
#18495 | restless | |
#21711 | spooky | |
#24054 | stubborn | |
#27639 | whimsical | |
#27699 | uneasy | |
#27763 | refractory | |
#27965 | impatient | |
#30182 | cranky | |
#33175 | rebellious | |
#39714 | unruly | |
#42831 | intractable | |
#45715 | capricious | |
#50756 | spoilt | |
#61633 | frisky | |
#65748 | resentful | |
#66176 | obstinate | |
#70249 | recalcitrant | |
#74028 | jumpy | |
#81204 | temperamental | |
#86204 | flyaway | |
#86575 | queasy | |
#100787 | skittish | |
#101493 | restive | |
#111798 | fidgety | |
#111963 | fractious | |
#116743 | unquiet | |
#124538 | flighty | |
#166645 | fretful | |
#183607 | mutinous | |
#219735 | squirrelly | |
#228084 | balky | |
#256033 | scatterbrained | |
#300373 | aflutter |
How to use skittish in a sentence?
There's a lot of people that doubt the market and they're still skittish and don't believe the rally or think they ought to be in bonds.
It has really, really changed the way that I do things. I can't sleep, my eating habits are totally different. I'm really paranoid, skittish, because of their actions, my life is now different.
The fact that Tillerson will give that answer to Putin before he gives it to NATO is not the signal we want to be sending, we have a lot of skittish allies out there. The optics are all wrong, and unfortunately the optics matter.
The markets are skittish. The concern is that the OPEC guys are not stepping in to curtail production and put a floor under the oil price, now the question is whether you go in and start (chipping) away at some of these names.
Clydesdales are a very gentle breed. When they're young, they're like any other horse -- skittish and more like a kid, more rambunctious. As they get older and more mature -- the more you handle them, the quieter they become.
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