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mousier

mousier is the comparative form of mousy.

Meaning of mousy

Adjective

mousy (comparative mousier, superlative mousiest)

  1. Resembling a mouse.
    • Near-synonyms: mouselike, murine
    Synonyms:
    mouselike, murine
    1. Quiet; stealthy.
    2. Timid.
    3. Of a greyish-brown colour.
      • It's a god-awful small affair
        To the girl with the mousy hair1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie
  2. Abounding in or infested with mice.

Questions about mousier

What is mousier the comparative form of?
Mousier is the comparative form of mousy.

Words near mousier in the dictionary

  1. mousey
  2. mouseys
  3. Moushegian
  4. Moushegians
  5. mousie
  6. mousier
  7. mousies
  8. mousiest
  9. mousily
  10. mousiness
  11. mousing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mousier (page history and authors); mousy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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