Skittish

Definition: Skittish

Skittish

Adjective

1. Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "skittish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Skittish \Skit"tish\, adjective. [See Skit, transitive verb]. (references)

Synonyms: Skittish

Caprice

Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.

Cowardice

Adjective: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.

Excitability

Startlish, mettlesome, high-mettled, skittish.

Modesty

Adjective: modest, diffident; humble; timid, timorous, bashful; shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest.

Crosswords: Skittish

Albanian

që trembet, lozonjar (playful, sportful, waggish), i hedhur (active, alive, castaway, energetic, frisky, mercurial, refuse), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فزع (appal, appall, be scared, dismay, dread, panic, scare), ‏متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), ‏لعوب (coltish, dallying, frisky, frivolous, playful, prankish, sportive, wanton), ‏غير مستقر (inconstant, infirm, insecure, labile, migrant, tottering, uneasy, unsettled, unstable, unsteady), ‏جفول. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кокетлив (kittenish), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical), глезен (ankle, sissified, sissy, spoilt, talus, tarsus), вятърничав (flighty, flyaway, harebrained, scatter-brained), закачлив (chaffy, facetious, jesting, kittenish, larky, perky, playful, pleasant, roguish, sly, troublesome, waggish), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), плашлив (fearful, flighty, nervy, shy, spooky, timid, timorous, wild), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references)

Czech

plachý (shy, timid, tremulous), lekavý, frivolní. (various references)

Farsi 

چموش (Cantankerous, Outlaw, Restive, Rowdyish), لاسی (Coquette, Coquettish), تغییرپذیر (Changeable, Convertible, Plastic, Supple, Variable), ترسو (Caitiff, Gunshy, Meticulous, Pigeon, Pusillanimous, Shamefaced, Sheepish, Shy, Timid, Timorous, Yellow), اهل حال (Game), رم کننده . (various references)

Finnish

vauhko (shy). (various references)

French

ombrageux, inquiet, incertain, espiègle. (various references)

German

schelmisch (airy-fairy, arch, frolic, frolicsome, impish, mischievous, mischievously, petulant, playful, playfully, skittishly, waggish, waggishly), unruhig (agitated, anxious, anxiously, bumpy, busy, choppy, fidgety, fitful, fitfully, fretful, nervy, noisily, noisy, restive, restless, skittishly, troubled, uncomfortably, uneasily, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, unsteady), ungebärdig (obstreperous, unrulily, unruly), neckisch (amusing, arch, bantering, coquettish, cute, merry, mischievous, naughty, playful, playfully, saucy, skittishly, teasing, whimsical), kokett (coquettish, flirtatious, kittenish, skittishly), übermütig (airy-fairy, arrogant, cocky, frolic, frolicsome, haughty, high-spirited, hilarious, mischievous, petulant, playful, rollicking, skittishly, wanton). (various references)

Greek 

κοκέττα, ζωηρός (animated, lively, vivacious, zippy), ευπτόητοσ, δειλόσ (bashful, boggler, chicken, chicken hearted, coward, dastardly, faint-hearted, fearful, lily livered, mealymouthed, pusillanimous, sheepish, shy, skulker, timid, timorous, weak-kneed, white livered, yellow). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצב� י ושובב. (various references)

Hungarian

változó hangulatú, szökdécselő, pipiskedő, mesterkélten kislányos, kokett (coquettish), dévaj (blithe, mischievous, puckish), bakfiskodó, állhatatlan (changeable, fickle, flighty, hoity toity, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, quavery, to blow hot a cold). (various references)

Indonesian

pengejut (shy). (various references)

Italian

volubile (changeable, fickle, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile), vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, racy, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), ombroso (nervous, shaded, shadowy, shady, touchy), capriccioso (capricious, fanciful, flighty, freakish, maggoty, temperamental, wayward, whimsical, wilful, willful). (various references)

Manx

corragh (chequered, chequered as career, crazy, eccentric, erratic, falling, hectic, infirm, irresolute, jerry-built, rocky place, sensitive, troubled, troubled of period, unbalanced, unbalanced of mind, uneven, uneven as temper, wobbly). (various references)

Pig Latin

ittishskay.(various references)

Portuguese

nervoso (agitated, ajar, bustling, fidgety, fussy, hysterical, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on edge, restive, tremulant, tremulous, uptight), leviano (bohemian, frivolous, giddy, harum-scarum, impulsive, light, light-headed), irrequieto (agog, bolter, bustling, fussy, impish, restive), inconstante (astatic, capricious, changeable, changeful, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, giddy, impermanent, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, shifting, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unstable, unsure, variable, versatile), excitável (excitable, nervous, temperamental), espantadiço, caprichoso (arbitrary, cantankerous, caprice, capricious, crotchety, difficult, extravagant, faddist, fanciful, fitful, freakish, kittle, maggoty, notional, peevish, temperamental, tidy, viewy, wayward, whim, whimsical), assustadiço (shy). (various references)

Romanian

sperios (shy, timorous, wild), jucãuş (dancer, frolicsome, jocose, kittenish, lambent, playful, prankish, rolling, wanton). (various references)

Russian 

живой;изменчивый, живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy), пугливый (fearful, flighty, jittery, scary, shivery, timid), игривый (coltish, frolicsome, gamesome, hoity toity, jocose, jocular, playful, sportive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snebivljiv (bashful, sheepish), uzbudljiv (breathtaking, excitative, excitatory, exciting, stirring, thrilling), nestalan (changeable, erratic, fickle, fleeting, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, shifty, transient, unabiding, unsteady, versatile, volatile, voluble), frivolan (frivolous, lightsome), ćudljiv (gnomish, jerky, moody, vagarious, whimsical). (various references)

Spanish

frívolo (airy, flighty, fribble, frivolous, giddy, trifling, trivial, trumpery), caprichoso (capricious, faddish, faddy, fanciful, flighty, freak, freakish, hardheaded, headstrong, opinionated, temperamental, vagary, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wilful, willful), asustadizo (eerie, jumpy, nervous, scarey, scary, shy). (various references)

Swedish

yster (coltish, frisky, wanton, wild), skygg (frightened, shy, timid). (various references)

Turkish

yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, non-effective, obstreperous, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), oynak (coquettish, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, loose, ludic, mobile, playful, unstable), hoppa (flighty, flippant, flyaway, fop, frivolous, gay, giddy, hoity toity, perky, trifling), gergin (drawn, high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on a knife-edge, on edge, on pins and needles, spread, stiff, strained, stressfull, stretched, taut, tense, tight, uptight), azgın (desperate, excessive, fierce, furious, goatish, mad, rampageous, rampant, Randy, wild), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous), ürkek (faint, fainthearted, fearful, gun-shy, jumpy, mousy, nervous, nervy, scary, shrinking, shy, timid, timorous, tremulous). (various references)

Ukrainian

грайливий (arch, facetious, frisky, gamesome, jocose, kittenish, playful, playsome, wanton), норовливий (balky, restive, wayward, willyard), мінливий (capricious, changeable, changeful, chatoyant, chequered, choppy, floating, inconsistent, interchangeable, mutable, non-permanent, stayless, uncertain, vagrant, variable, varied, wanton, wavy, wayward), підступний (astute, cattish, crafty, cunning, dastardly, guileful, insidious, jesuitic, jesuitical, serpentine, sly, treacherous, vulpine, wily, witty), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, choice, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freak, freakish, huffish, humorous, humous, inconstant, maggoty, naughty, notional, notionate, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự bóng (shinines), nhát. (various references)

delicata, delicatae, delicate, delicati, delicatum, delicatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "skittish": skittishly, skittishness, skittishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Skittish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kittish, scotish, scot-tish, scottishe, skiddish, skitish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: shtiks.

-3 letters: hists, kists, kiths, shist, shtik, skits, tikis, titis.

-4 letters: hiss, hist, hits, khis, kiss, kist, kith, kits, sith, sits, skis, skit, this, tiki, titi, tsks.

-5 letters: his, hit, its, khi, kit, sis, sit, ski, tis, tsk.

+2 letters: skittishly.

+3 letters: nightsticks, sticktights.

+4 letters: skittishness.

+5 letters: kittenishness.