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skittish

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of skittish

1 easily excited by nature

  • the skittish colt leapt up when we approached
Synonyms of skittish

excitable, fiddle-footed, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hyper, hyperactive, hyperexcitable, hyperkinetic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, skittery, spasmodic, spooky
Words Related to skittish

hot-blooded, mercurial, temperamental, unstable, volatile, volcanic

anxious, edgy, flibbertigibbety, nervy, tense, uptight

emotional, emotionalistic, hypersensitive, intense, sensitive, soulful

dramatic, histrionic, melodramatic

irascible, irritable, perturbable, prickly, testy, touchy
Near Antonyms of skittish

calm, collected, cool, serene, tranquil

easy, easygoing, laid-back, relaxed
Antonyms of skittish

imperturbable, nerveless, unexcitable, unflappable, unshakable

2 easily frightened

  • the cat is skittish around people she doesn't know
Synonyms of skittish

fainthearted, fearful, fearsome, mousy (or mousey), scary, shy, timid, timorous, tremulous
Words Related to skittish

chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, spineless, unheroic, yellow

jittery, jumpy, spooky

anxious, apprehensive, nervous

afraid, alarmed, horrified, panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized, unnerved
Near Antonyms of skittish

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
Antonyms of skittish

adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daring, dashing, gutsy, hardy, venturesome, venturous

3 likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly

  • a skittish housing market had both buyers and sellers on edge
Synonyms of skittish

capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile
Words Related to skittish

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
Phrases Synonymous with skittish

up in the air
Near Antonyms of skittish

equable, even, uniform

abiding, durable, lasting, permanent, persistent

dependable, reliable, sure, tried, tried-and-true, true, trustworthy, trusty
Antonyms of skittish

certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, predictable, settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unchanging, unvarying

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