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rabbity
adjective as in coy
adjective as in diffident
Strongest matches
adjective as in fearful
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- aflutter
- aghast
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervy
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- running scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- solicitous
- spineless
- timorous
- tremulous
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
adjective as in frightened
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Populating the ridge and surrounding slopes are herds of gazellelike creatures called guanacos; viscachas, marmotlike rodents with rabbity ears; burros; and hawks.
Edmund White, a fellow elder statesman of gay literature — and, like Holleran, a member of the Violet Quill, an informal collective during the 1970s — called him “rabbity.”
Isabella throws a few rabbity looks my way, but then it’s like she gives up.
Cumberbatch and Foy manage to find purchase as two misfits in love, alternately rabbity and wide-eyed in a private world of shyness and mutual understanding.
The edges of her nostrils were inflamed and rabbity, and she reached up to wipe her nose with a red-taloned hand.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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