mousy.

1. Timid, quiet, and inclined to avoid attracting notice.

2. Dull gray-brown in color, especially of hair.

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Words that belong together

• mousy manner

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Her mousy manner changed under pressure.

The mousy clerk hesitated to interrupt.

Usage notes

Primary category: fear. Forms: mousy; mousier; mousiest. Also more/most mousy; mousey is a spelling variant. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.