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skittish 音标拼音: [sk'ɪtɪʃ] a. 怯懦;轻佻;轻浮;水性杨花 怯懦;轻佻;轻浮;水性杨花 skittish adj 1: unpredictably excitable ( especially of horses) [ synonym: { skittish}, { flighty}, { spooky}, { nervous}] Skittish \ Skit" tish\, a. [ See { Skit}, v. t.] 1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. " A restiff, skittish jade." -- L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. " Skittish Fortune' s hall." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Skit" tish* ly}, adv. -- { Skit" tish* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 128 Moby Thesaurus words for " skittish": agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, animated, antic, bashful, capersome, changeable, coltish, combustible, confused, conscious, coquettish, cowardly, coy, delicate, demure, diffident, dizzy, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, empty- headed, eruptive, excitable, explosive, exuberant, faddish, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fickle, flighty, flirtatious, frisky, frivolous, frolicsome, full of beans, gamesome, gay, giddy, goosy, harebrained, hearty, high- mettled, high- spirited, high- strung, highly emotional, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, in fear, inarticulate, inconstant, inflammable, irascible, irresponsible, irritable, itchy, jumpy, light, light- headed, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, mousy, nervous, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, perturbable, playful, prickly, quicksilver, rabbity, rattlebrained, refined, responsive, restive, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scary, scatterbrained, self- conscious, sensitive, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, spirited, sportive, sprightly, stammering, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin- skinned, ticklish, timid, timorous, touchy, toying, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger- happy, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, versatile, vital, vivacious, volatile, volcanic, zestful, zippy
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