All butterflies synonyms
butΒ·terΒ·fly
B b adj butterflies
- overwrought β extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
- shaking β an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shaky β tending to shake or tremble.
- solicitous β anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
- taut β tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
- troubled β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- watchful β vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- wired β made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- shivery β readily breaking into shivers or fragments; brittle.
- unquiet β agitated; restless; disordered; turbulent: unquiet times.
- basket case β If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
- bugged β Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- choked β If you say something in a choked voice or if your voice is choked with emotion, your voice does not have its full sound, because you are upset or frightened.
- clutched β to hatch (chickens).
- disquieted β lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
- dreading β to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- hyper β overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.
- in a state β distraught
- shook up β to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- spooked β Informal. a ghost; specter.
- strung out β severely debilitated from alcohol or drugs.
- unglued β separated or detached; not glued.
- worried sick β extremely anxious about sb or sth
- alarmed β If someone is alarmed, they feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- frozen β past participle of freeze.
- hung up β Slang: Vulgar. (of a male) having very large genitals.
- lily-livered β weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- stiff β rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- weak β not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- worried β having or characterized by worry; concerned; anxious: Their worried parents called the police.
- mistrustful β full of mistrust; suspicious.
- in a sweat β perspiring
- jellyfish β any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- scaredy-cat β fraidy-cat.
- chicken β Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
- mousy β resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- sissy β Disparaging and Offensive. an effeminate boy or man.
- chicken-hearted β easily frightened; cowardly
- 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.
- scared stiff β terrified
- terror-stricken β overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
noun butterflies
- tremulousness β (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
- blue funk β a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- cold feet β loss or lack of courage or confidence