skittish
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Synonyms & Antonyms for skittish
Synonyms
excitable, fiddle-footed, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hyper, hyperactive, hyperexcitable, hyperkinetic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, skittery, spasmodic, spooky
Antonyms
imperturbable, nerveless, unexcitable, unflappable, unshakable
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The Andrew Luck retirement news came out during the draft, so people were skittish on T.Y. Hilton, so $15 for him seemed great. — Si Fantasy Staff, SI.com, "Fantasy Football 2019: Auction League Mock Draft," 30 Aug. 2019 Whole stretches crackle with sputtering rhythms and skittish riffs. — New York Times, "A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera," 13 June 2018 Bitcoin provided a haven for skittish investors, rising 14%. — Alan Murray, Fortune, "The Recession Watch Is Back On: CEO Daily," 6 Aug. 2019 Even so, some Democratic leaders and strategists are skittish about putting too much emphasis on Trump, and not just because that approach failed in 2016. — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, "Joe Biden Wants to Take America Back to a Time Before Trump," 23 July 2019 The partnership traces to September 2008, when MUFG bought a 21% stake in Morgan Stanley after skittish investors dumped the bank’s stock. — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, "The Muscle Morgan Stanley Flexed in the $74 Billion Bristol-Myers Deal," 4 Jan. 2019 For those a little skittish of dining underwater, there's a champagne bar above sea level to calm your nerves. — Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle, "Norway's underwater restaurant is finally open," 19 June 2019 Other doctors, who were skittish about traveling to the epicenter to help, would see the effort to extract their contemporaries and be reassured. — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, "The Airplanes That Rescue Ebola Patients," 5 July 2019 Indiana Decatur: Police rescued a 74-year-old woman after three deer crashed through a bedroom window into her apartment, trapping her inside with the skittish animals. — USA TODAY, "Renters revolt, troublesome bras, deer in the john: News from around our 50 states," 5 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'skittish.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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