Antonyms for mousy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : mou-see, -zee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmaʊ si, -zi |
Definition of mousy
Origin :- 1812 with reference to quietness; 1853, of color; from mouse + -y (2).
- adj drab; quiet
- In the first place, it is likely to have a slight musky or mousy odor about it.
- Extract from : « A Handbook of Health » by Woods Hutchinson
- A bat was flying somewhere near—he felt the wind from its mousy wings.
- Extract from : « Lorraine » by Robert W. Chambers
- Head and ears were mousy, the neck long, with a hump at its base.
- Extract from : « West Of The Sun » by Edgar Pangborn
- They were kept on plates on sideboards in the sun, or thrust into mousy cupboards.
- Extract from : « Notwithstanding » by Mary Cholmondeley
- You have mousy ways and, if you were black, I should say you were a rat.
- Extract from : « The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories » by Carl Ewald
- Baby dear, only look at it wid him pitty, pitty eyes, and him tongue out of his mousy!
- Extract from : « Lorna Doone » by R. D. Blackmore
- The people are charming, and the house is a mousy, ratty, ramshackle place hundreds of years old.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- This is the prettiest Cerastium, though not so "mousy" as some, and grows in dry as well as moist situations.
- Extract from : « Field Book of Western Wild Flowers » by Margaret Armstrong
- For a mouse is interesting—just as interesting in his mousy ways as a whale in his whalish ways, or a robin in his ways.
- Extract from : « Winter » by Dallas Lore Sharp
- She wasn't as developed as she is now, kind of mousy maybe, but you know how those things are—he liked her.
- Extract from : « Forget Me Nearly » by Floyd L. Wallace
Synonyms for mousy
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