1 (of horses) easily excited or frightened and therefore difficult to control
2 (of people) not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keep changing
3 (especially AmE, business) likely to change suddenly:
skittish financial markets * skittish investors / traders
skittishly adverb
skittishness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for skittish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is skittish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, skittish is tagged as adjective.
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