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Word Meanings - SKITTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange. 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness,

Additional info about word: SKITTISH

1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange. 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to SKITTISH)

  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • WANTON
    wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
  • ESTRANGER
    One who estranges.
  • RESTIFF
    Restive.
  • RESTIFFNESS
    Restiveness.
  • VOLATILENESS; VOLATILITY
    Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn. -- See Levity.
  • WANTONNESS
    The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
  • FORTUNELESS
    Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
  • FRIGHTEN
    To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym:
  • FICKLE
    Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled;
  • TIMOROUS
    1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. Shak. 2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. "The timorous apostasy of chuchmen." Milman. -- Tim"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Tim"or*ous*ness, n.
  • RESTIVE
    Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back. Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do. E. Philips . The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag
  • SKITTISH
    1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange. 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness,
  • ESTRANGEDNESS
    State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
  • WANTONIZE
    To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
  • CHANGEABLE
    1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
  • EASILY
    1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen. 2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple. 3. Readily;
  • FREAKISH
    Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness,
  • ESTRANGEMENT
    The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.
  • VOLATILE
    1. Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly. 2. Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aëriform state; subject to evaporation. Note: Substances which affect the
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.
  • ARRESTIVE
    Tending to arrest. McCosh.
  • WHEEL OF FORTUNE
    A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
  • UNEASILY
    In an uneasy manner.
  • BEFORTUNE
    To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
  • AFFRIGHTEN
    To frighten. "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

 

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