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Meaning of MOUSY

Pronunciation:  'mawsee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  timid and ineffectual
  2. [adj]  having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy grownish-gray color"; "mouse-colored hair"; "a mouselike rodent"
 
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 Synonyms: chromatic, mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey, timid
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Mous"y\, a.
Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: acier, afraid, ashen, ashy, bashful, brown, brownish, canescent, chicken, chickenhearted, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, cowering, coy, dapple, dappled, dappled-gray, dapple-gray, daunted, demure, diffident, dingy, dismal, dismayed, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusty, echoless, fainthearted, fearful, fearing, fearsome, flat, funking, funky, glaucescent, glaucous, goosy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, grayed, gray-green, grayish, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grey, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, henhearted, hush as death, hushed, in fear, inarticulate, inaudible, intimidated, iron-gray, jumpy, leaden, lead-gray, lily-livered, livid, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mouselike, mousey, nervous, noiseless, overtimid, overtimorous, panicky, panic-prone, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pigeonhearted, plain, Quaker-colored, quiescent, quiet, rabbity, ratty, rodent, rodential, sad, scary, self-conscious, self-effacing, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shivery, shrinking, shy, silent, silver, silvered, silver-gray, silvery, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, soft, somber, soundless, stammering, startlish, steel-gray, steely, still, still as death, stilly, stone-colored, subaudible, taupe, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unarticulated, unhearable, unmanly, unmanned, unpronounced, unsounded, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, verminous, weak, weakhearted, weak-kneed, whist, white-livered, yellow
 

 

 

 

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