- Startlish
- Startlish Star"tlish (-tl[i^]sh), a. Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a horse. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Startlish
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startlish — star·tlish … English syllables
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bashful — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, abashed, aloof, autistic, awkward, backward, blank, blushful, boggling, chilled, chilly, close, cold, confused, conscious, constrained, cool, cowardly, coy, demure, demurring, detached, diffident, discreet,… … Moby Thesaurus
cowardly — Synonyms and related words: abulic, afraid, anemic, asthenic, bashful, bloodless, caitiff, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowed, craven, dastardly, daunted, debilitated, diffident, dismayed, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint,… … Moby Thesaurus
diffident — Synonyms and related words: bashful, boggling, cautious, cowardly, coy, demure, demurring, deprecative, deprecatory, faltering, fearful, fearing, fearsome, goosy, hesitant, hesitating, in fear, jibbing, jumpy, modest, mousy, nervous, qualmish,… … Moby Thesaurus
edgy — Synonyms and related words: agitable, all nerves, antsy, antsy pantsy, anxious, apprehensive, breathless, chafing, combustible, eager, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, fearful, fretful, fretting,… … Moby Thesaurus
emotional — Synonyms and related words: affecting, affectional, affective, agitable, agitated, ardent, characteristic, constitutional, demonstrative, dispositional, edgy, emote, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotionable, emotionalize, emotionally unstable,… … Moby Thesaurus
eruptive — Synonyms and related words: agitable, bursting, detonating, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, excitable, explodable, explosible, explosive, fulminating, high mettled, high spirited, high strung, highly emotional, inflammable, irascible,… … Moby Thesaurus
excitable — Synonyms and related words: agitable, all nerves, apprehensive, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, combustible, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive,… … Moby Thesaurus
explosive — Synonyms and related words: Ballistite, TNT, agitable, alarming, allophone, alveolar, anxious, apico alveolar, apico dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bad, banging, bilabial, blasting, bursting, cacuminal, cellulose nitrate,… … Moby Thesaurus
