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panicky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective panicky has 1 sense
- panicky(s = adj.all) frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, terrified - thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" Derived form noun panic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
panicky, adj.
Same as panic-stricken; as, the travellers became panicky as the snow deepened. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
panicky
afraid, all nerves, apprehensive, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, dismayed, edgy, excitable, fainthearted, fearful, frightened, funking, funky, henhearted, high-strung, in a panic, intimidated, irritable, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, overstrung, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, pigeonhearted, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, timid, timorous, uneasy, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow
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