All aflutter synonyms
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A a adj aflutter
- shy β bashful; retiring.
- timid β lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
- afraid β If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- hesitant β hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- nervous β highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- scared β to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- anxious β If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
- uneasy β not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
- tense β in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
- agitated β If someone is agitated, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- jittery β extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- frightened β thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- skittish β apt to start or shy: a skittish horse.
- panicky β a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- aghast β If you are aghast, you are filled with horror and surprise.
- chicken β Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
- diffident β lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- disturbed β marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
- fainthearted β lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- intimidated β to make timid; fill with fear.
- jumpy β subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.
- lily-livered β weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- mousy β resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- nerveless β without nervousness, as in emergencies; calm; collected.
- nervy β brashly presumptuous or insolent; pushy: a nervy thing to say; a nervy trick to pull.
- perturbed β to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- phobic β of or relating to a phobia or phobias.
- pusillanimous β lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- shaky β tending to shake or tremble.
- sheepish β embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.
- shrinking β to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- solicitous β anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
- spineless β having no spines or quills.
- timorous β full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous.
- tremulous β (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
- unmanly β not manly; not characteristic of or befitting a man; weak, timid, or cowardly.
- worried β having or characterized by worry; concerned; anxious: Their worried parents called the police.
- yellow β a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
- chickenhearted β timid; fearful; cowardly.
- quivery β the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- disquieted β lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
- rabbity β any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- weak-kneed β yielding readily to opposition, pressure, intimidation, etc.
adjective aflutter
- alarmed β If someone is alarmed, they feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- apprehensive β Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.