skittish

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skit‧tish/ˈskɪtɪʃ/ adjective
[date : 1300-1400; Origin : Perhaps from Old Norse skjota 'to shoot']
1. an animal, especially a horse, that is skittish gets excited or frightened very easily

2. a person who is skittish is not very serious, and their feelings, behaviour, and opinions keep changing

3. if people who buy sharesare skittish, they are nervous and worried about them dropping in value, and might sell the shares that they own because of this SYN jittery:
　 ▪ Some skittish Wall Street investors are staying away from the market.

—skittishly adverb

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And if Apple falls apart, software developers could get even more skittish about sinking money into writing programs for Macs.
▪ Any pack animals the adventurers have may get restless and skittish.
▪ As it is, the thundering herd is likely to prove a skittish lot.
▪ At the heart of the problem is this: Bighorn sheep are skittish animals.
▪ At work she was a supremely confident executive; with her first child she was a skittish novice.
▪ Cranston's mount became skittish and even Philomel showed a lively interest in the group round the scaffold.
▪ Institutional investors such as mutual funds are more skittish and can bail out after a few quarters of soft earnings.
▪ My horse was skittish, I could not settle him.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  flighty, spooky, nervous