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
Example sentences :
  • 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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