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# skittish

«skittish» in Mova's school dictionary: **Easily frightened, nervous and jumpy, ready to run off at…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (skittish, more skittish, most skittish)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Easily frightened, nervous and jumpy, ready to run off at any noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skittish/#m1)

2) Of a horse, lively and likely to shy or bolt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skittish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons small animals such as rabbits who huddle together and feel uneasy when a fox or wolf is near

### examples

- The skittish pony jumped at the sound of the bell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skittish/#x1)
- The rabbits were skittish and ran at every noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skittish/#x2)
- Don't be skittish; the dog will not bite you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skittish/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skittish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skittish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.