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Skittish vs Troubled - What's the difference?

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Skittish is a related term of troubled.


As adjectives the difference between skittish and troubled

is that skittish is easily scared or startled; timid while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.

As a verb troubled is

(trouble).

skittish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easily scared or startled; timid.
    • The cat likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
  • wanton; changeable; fickle
    • Skittish Fortune's hall. — Shakespeare.

    Synonyms

    * spookish * jumpy * squirrelly

    Derived terms

    * skittishly * skittishness

    See also

    * startle

    troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)