mousy

mousy
    adj 1: quiet and timid and ineffectual [syn: {mousy}, {mousey}]
    2: infested with mice [syn: {mousy}, {mousey}]
    3: of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a
       mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-
       colored hair" [syn: {mousy}, {mousey}, {mouse-colored},
       {mouselike}]
    

Mousy \Mous"y\ (mouz"[y^]), a.
   Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
   [1913 Webster]
    

161 Moby Thesaurus words for "mousy":
      Quaker-colored, acier, afraid, ashen, ashy, bashful, brown,
      brownish, canescent, chicken, chickenhearted, cinereous, cinerous,
      colorless, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, cowering,
      coy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, daunted, demure,
      diffident, dingy, dismal, dismayed, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab,
      dreary, dull, dun, dusty, echoless, fainthearted, fearful, fearing,
      fearsome, flat, funking, funky, glaucescent, glaucous, goosy, gray,
      gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
      gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey,
      griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, henhearted, hush as death,
      hushed, in fear, inarticulate, inaudible, intimidated, iron-gray,
      jumpy, lead-gray, leaden, lily-livered, livid, milk-livered,
      milksoppish, milksoppy, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mouselike,
      mousey, nervous, noiseless, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone,
      panicky, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pigeonhearted, plain,
      quiescent, quiet, rabbity, ratty, rodent, rodential, sad, scary,
      self-conscious, self-effacing, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast,
      shivery, shrinking, shy, silent, silver, silver-gray, silvered,
      silvery, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, slate-colored,
      slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, soft, somber, soundless,
      stammering, startlish, steel-gray, steely, still, still as death,
      stilly, stone-colored, subaudible, taupe, timid, timorous,
      trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unarticulated,
      unhearable, unmanly, unmanned, unpronounced, unsounded, unuttered,
      unvocalized, unvoiced, verminous, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted,
      whist, white-livered, yellow