skittish

skittish
    adj 1: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn:
           {skittish}, {flighty}, {spooky}, {nervous}]
    

Skittish \Skit"tish\, a. [See {Skit}, v. t.]
   1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a
      skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." --L'Estrange.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle.
      "Skittish Fortune's hall." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Skit"tish*ly}, adv. --
      {Skit"tish*ness}, n.
      [1913 Webster]
    

128 Moby Thesaurus words for "skittish":
      agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, animated, antic, bashful,
      capersome, changeable, coltish, combustible, confused, conscious,
      coquettish, cowardly, coy, delicate, demure, diffident, dizzy,
      edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic,
      empty-headed, eruptive, excitable, explosive, exuberant, faddish,
      fearful, fearing, fearsome, fickle, flighty, flirtatious, frisky,
      frivolous, frolicsome, full of beans, gamesome, gay, giddy, goosy,
      harebrained, hearty, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung,
      highly emotional, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive,
      in fear, inarticulate, inconstant, inflammable, irascible,
      irresponsible, irritable, itchy, jumpy, light, light-headed,
      lively, mercurial, mettlesome, mousy, nervous, overrefined,
      oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, perturbable,
      playful, prickly, quicksilver, rabbity, rattlebrained, refined,
      responsive, restive, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scary,
      scatterbrained, self-conscious, sensitive, shaky, shamefaced,
      shamefast, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, spirited, sportive,
      sprightly, stammering, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic,
      tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, timid, timorous,
      touchy, toying, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy,
      undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, versatile,
      vital, vivacious, volatile, volcanic, zestful, zippy