mousy

Other forms of mousy

comparative or superlative

mousier

comparative or superlative

mousiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mousy

What does mousy mean?

mousy means "quiet and timid and ineffectual". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mousy?

mousy has 2 syllables: mou-sy. The stress falls on "mou". In IPA it is /ˈmaʊsi/.

What is another word for mousy?

Close synonyms include mousey, mousey, mousey, mouse-colored, mouselike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mousy a common word?

mousy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.