Tom is skittish.
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Skittish
//ˈskɪtɪʃ//
Synonyms for "skittish" (149 found)
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Adjective(7 words)
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2 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 21 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- խրտնող adj (easily scared)
Bulgarian
3 entries- закачлив adj (fickle)
- игрив adj (fickle)
- плашлив adj (easily scared)
Catalan
1 entries- tímid adj (easily scared)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 易受惊的 adj (easily scared)
- 胆小的 adj (easily scared)
Czech
3 entries- bojácný adj (easily scared)
- bázlivý adj (easily scared)
- lekavý adj (easily scared)
Dutch
1 entries- schichtig adj (easily scared)
Esperanto
1 entries- ektimema adj (easily scared)
Finnish
1 entries- säikky adj (easily scared)
French
1 entries- timide adj (easily scared)
Galician
2 entries- medorento adj (easily scared)
- medroso adj (easily scared)
German
4 entries- launisch adj (fickle)
- scheu adj (easily scared)
- schreckhaft adj (easily scared)
- unberechenbar adj (fickle)
Interlingua
3 entries- capriciose adj (fickle)
- pavorose adj (easily scared)
- timide adj (easily scared)
Italian
4 entries- capriccioso adj (fickle)
- pauroso adj (easily scared)
- timoroso adj (easily scared)
- volubile adj (fickle)
Middle Armenian
1 entries- խրչան adj (easily scared)
Māori
1 entries- pūohorere adj (easily scared)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- skvetten adj (easily scared)
Polish
2 entries- płochliwy adj (easily scared)
- płochy adj (fickle)
Romanian
1 entries- timid adj (easily scared)
Russian
2 entries- боязли́вый adj (easily scared)
- пугли́вый adj (easily scared)
Spanish
4 entries- asustadizo adj (easily scared)
- caprichoso adj (fickle)
- chúcaro adj (easily scared)
- espantadizo adj (easily scared)
Turkish
1 entries- ürkek adj (easily scared)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Tom's cat Felicity is skittish, but once you've befriended her, she won't leave you alone.
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Tom was skittish.
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I'm always skittish when it comes to car repair shops. I distrust many of them.
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