Synonyms for rabbity
- humble
- quiet
- reserved
- restrained
- shrinking
- withdrawing
- withdrawn
- backward
- bashful
- coy
- demure
- diffident
- meek
- modest
- nongregarious
- not forward
- recessive
- reclusive
- reticent
- self-effacing
- timid
- timorous
- unaffable
- unassertive
- unassuming
- unexpansive
- unsociable
Antonyms for rabbity
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR RABBITY
His cheeks were getting flushed and his eyes were large and rabbity.
Ask any one who has shot in the rabbity fields of southern New Jersey.
Randolph relentlessly stalked another of the rabbity creatures.
As soon as he had his camera and lantern, we went cautiously to the rabbity side of the woods; several ran past us.
WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., "young of the coney," from French dialect (cf. Walloon robète), diminutive of Flemish or Middle Dutch robbe "rabbit," of unknown origin. "A Germanic noun with a French suffix" [Liberman]. The adult was a coney (q.v.) until 18c.
Rabbit punch "chop on the back of the neck" so called from resemblance to a gamekeeper's method of dispatching an injured rabbit. Pulling rabbits from a hat as a conjurer's trick recorded by 1843. Rabbit's foot "good luck charm" first attested 1879, in U.S. Southern black culture. Earlier references are to its use as a tool to apply cosmetic powders.
Rabbit ears "dipole television antenna" is from 1950. Grose's 1788 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" has "RABBIT CATCHER. A midwife."
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR RABBITY
coy
adjectivevery modestdiffident
adjectivehesitant; unconfidentfearful
adjectivealarmed, apprehensive- aflutter
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- anxious
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- hesitant
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervous
- nervy
- panicky
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- solicitous
- spineless
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- tremulous
- uneasy
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
frightened
adjectivevery scared- abashed
- affrighted
- afraid
- aghast
- alarmed
- anxious
- butterflies
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- cowed
- dismayed
- fearful
- frozen
- have cold feet
- having kittens
- hung up
- in a cold sweat
- in a panic
- in a sweat
- jellyfish
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- numb
- panicky
- petrified
- pushing the panic button
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared stiff
- shaky
- shivery
- sissy
- spooked
- startled
- terrified
- terror-stricken
- terrorized
- unnerved
- uptight
- yellow