Synonyms and Antonyms of skittish
1
easily excited by nature - The skittish colt leapt up when we approached.
excitable, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hyper, hyperactive, hyperkinetic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, spasmodic, spooky
hot-blooded, mercurial, temperamental, unstable, volatile, volcanic
anxious, edgy, flibbertigibbety, nervy, tense, uptight
emotional, emotionalistic, hypersensitive, intense, sensitive, soulful
2
easily frightened - The cat is skittish around people she doesn't know.
chicken, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, spineless, yellow
jittery, jumpy, spooky
anxious, apprehensive, nervous
afraid, alarmed, horrified, panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized, unnerved
brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous
assured, confident, self-assured, self-confident
determined, firm, game, plucky, resolute, undeterred, unflinching, unswerving
mettlesome, spirited, spunky
3
likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly - A skittish housing market had both buyers and sellers on edge.
capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile
aimless, arbitrary, desultory, erratic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, irregular, random, scattered, slapdash, stray
ambivalent, hesitating, shaky, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, vacillating, wavering
dicey, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy
adaptable, mobile, protean, versatile
equable, even, uniform
abiding, durable, lasting, permanent, persistent
dependable, reliable, sure, tried, tried-and-true, true, trustworthy, trusty
certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, predictable, settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unchanging, unvarying
