| 单词 | mousy |
| 释义 | mousy (once / 45285 pages) adj If your house is painted the same dull brown color as a mouse's fur, you can call it mousy. If you're tired of your mousy hair, you can always dye it purple. If you think of mice as shy and boring, you'll understand the sense of the adjective mousy. Whether it's describing a color, like your mousy brown sweater, or a personality, like a timid, mousy classmate, mousy is rarely a compliment. The "quiet and unassertive" meaning is the oldest, dating from about 1812, while the reference to color came along forty years later. WORD FAMILYmousy: mousiest, mousily+/mouse: mice, mouse-colored, moused, mouselike, mouses, mousey, mousing, mousy USAGE EXAMPLESHer playing was diffident, her sound mousy and lackluster. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) Ms. Stewart manages the remarkable feat of being at once convincingly mousy and unmistakably glamorous. New York Times(Oct 13, 2016) And Blunt is hardly the mousy wreck I imagined the novel’s demented protagonist to be. The Guardian(Oct 10, 2016) 1adj of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse a mousy brownish-grey color mousy hair Syn mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey chromatic being or having or characterized by hue 2adj quiet and timid and ineffectual Syn mousey timid showing fear and lack of confidence 3adj infested with mice Syn mousey |
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