What are some opposite words for skittish?

Antonyms for skittish
ˈskɪt ɪʃskit·tish

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  1. skittishadjective

    Synonyms:
    spookish, squirrelly, jumpy

  2. skittishadjective

    Easily scared or startled; timid.

    The cat likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.

    Synonyms:
    squirrelly, spookish, jumpy

  3. skittishadjective

    wanton; changeable; fickle

    Skittish Fortune's hall. Shakespeare.

    Synonyms:
    squirrelly, jumpy, spookish

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  1. skittish

    Balky, mulish, obstinate, and stubborn are synonyms of restive only in an infrequent if not obsolete use; the supposed sense of "tending to rest," "standing stubbornly still," is scarcely supported by any examples, and those cited to support that meaning often fail to do so. The disposition to offer active resistance to control by any means whatever is what is commonly indicated by restive in the best English speech and literature. Dryden speaks of "the pampered colt" as "restiff to the rein;" but the rein is not used to propel a horse forward, but to hold him in, and it is against this that he is "restiff." A horse may be made restless by flies or by martial music, but with no refractoriness; the restive animal impatiently resists or struggles to break from control, as by bolting, flinging his rider, or otherwise. With this the metaphorical use of the word agrees, which is always in the sense of such terms as impatient, intractable, rebellious, and the like; a people restive under despotism are not disposed to "rest" under it, but to resist it and fling it off.

    Antonyms:
    docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, passive, peaceable, quiet, submissive, tractable, yielding

    Synonyms:
    balky, fidgety, fractious, fretful, frisky, impatient, intractable, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, restiff, restive, restless, stubborn, unruly, vicious

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. skittish, flighty, spooky, nervousadjective

    unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

    Antonyms:
    unexcitable

    Synonyms:
    flyaway, queasy, aflutter, flighty, uneasy, nervous, unquiet, neural, head-in-the-clouds, spooky, scatterbrained, anxious

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  1. skittishadjective

    Synonyms:
    timorous, shy, volatile, restless, wanton

How to use skittish in a sentence?

  1. John Soto:

    Clydesdales are a very gentle breed. When they're young, they're like any other horse -- skittish and more like a kid, more rambunctious. As they get older and more mature -- the more you handle them, the quieter they become.

  2. Gary Bradshaw:

    Employment numbers are coming out tomorrow and that's always a question mark, i still think there's a lot of people that doubt the market and they're still skittish and don't believe the rally or think they ought to be in bonds.

  3. Gary Bradshaw:

    There's a lot of people that doubt the market and they're still skittish and don't believe the rally or think they ought to be in bonds.

  4. Ben Le Brun:

    The market is a little bit skittish ahead of the OPEC meeting, it is going to be very range-bound between now and Friday.

  5. Julianne Smith:

    The fact that Tillerson will give that answer to Putin before he gives it to NATO is not the signal we want to be sending, we have a lot of skittish allies out there. The optics are all wrong, and unfortunately the optics matter.

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