Word Meanings - STARTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apt to start; skittish.

Related words: (words related to STARTFUL)

• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• SKITTISH
  1. Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange. 2. Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness,
• START
  sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störa to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. *166. Cf. 1. To leap; to jump. 2. To move suddenly,
• STARTINGLY
  By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak.
• STARTLISH
  Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
• STARTING
  from Start, v. Starting bar , a hand lever for working the values in starting an engine. -- Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. -- Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. -- Starting post, a post, stake,
• STARTLE
  To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction Addison. (more info) Etym:
• STARTFUL
  Apt to start; skittish.
• STARTHROAT
  Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
• START-UP
  1. One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart. Shak. 2. A kind of high rustic shoe. Drayton. A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser.
• STARTER
  1. One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race. 2. A dog that rouses game.
• REDSTART
  A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.
• ASTARTE
  A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.
• SELF-STARTER
  A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal- combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
• ASTART
  See ASTERT
• OUTSTART
  To start out or up. Chaucer.
• UPSTART
  To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson.