- 1(of horses) easily excited or frightened and therefore difficult to control
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- 2(of people) not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keep changing
- 3(business) likely to change suddenly skittish financial markets
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noun [uncountable]See skittish in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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