Meaning

5 senses
  1. Resembling a mouse.

    Near-synonyms: mouselike, murine

    of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse

  2. Resembling a mouse.

    Quiet; stealthy.

    quiet and timid and ineffectual

  3. Timid.

  4. Of a greyish-brown colour.

  5. Abounding in or infested with mice.

    infested with mice

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Yanni was a shy mousy student.

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  2. Sarah is a mousy-quiet and reserved woman.

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  3. My pup took a marrow-bone and sat mousy-quiet in a corner.

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  4. She was mousy and frail, but she ran the office with an iron fist.

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  5. She's a mousy woman.

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Translations

4 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Forms

mousier, mousiest
Comparativemousier Lesson
Superlativemousiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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