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Definition: Tremulous |
TremulousAdjective1. (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a tremulous voice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tremulous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Tremulous \Trem"u*lous\, adjective. [Latin expression tremulus, from tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: TremulousSynonym: quavering (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Adjective: shaking; Verb: agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory; saltatoric; quasative; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter. |
Fear | Afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt. |
Irresolution | Adjective: irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; Verb: off one's balance; at a loss; (uncertain). |
Stammering | Adjective: stammering; Verb: inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tremulous |
| English words defined with "tremulous": play ♦ quake, Quaky, quaver, quavering, quiver ♦ shimmer, Succussive ♦ tremolo, Tremulent, tremulously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tremulous": Mufflers ♦ sound warbler. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tremulous": tremolo. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | An ecstasy of flight made radiant his eyes and wild his breath and tremulous and wild and radiant his windswept limbs. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tremulous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tremulous" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 77 | 37,929 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tremulous": fish-tremulous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tremulous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i ndruajtur (misgiving, reserved, self conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, shy, tentative, timid, timorous, tremulant), i frikur (faint, faint-heart, faint-hearted, poor spirited, tremulant), i dredhur (crisp, curly, curved, frizzly, frizzy, shaky, trembling, trembly, tremulant, wobbly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهتز (quaking, quivering, shaking, trembling, vibrant), مرتعش (quavering, quavery, quivering, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery), مرتعد (shaking, shivery, shuddering, trembling), مرتجف (shivery), جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, faint, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, sissy, spiritless, timid, timorous, unmanly, weak-kneed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свръхчувствителен (allergic, hypersensitive, neurotic, supersensitive), треперещ (niddle-noddle, quaking, shaking, shaky, shivery, trembling, trembly, vibrant, wavering), трепетен, трепетлив (quaking, trembling, trembly), възбуден (aflutter, aglow, agog, effervescent, excited, fevered, hectic, hot, impassioned, overwrought, tumultuous, wrought up), боязлив (chickenhearted, faltering, milk-livered, shy, timorous), плах (faint, furtive, mousey, nervy, pigeon-hearted, pusillanimous, stealthy, timid, wan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 震颤 (tremor), 發抖 (shiver, shudder, tremble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | třesavý, plachý (shy, skittish, timid), chvìjící se (quakerish, quiverful, shaky, vibrant, wobbly), bázlivý (chicken hearted, faint-hearted, fearful, scary, timid, timorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مرتعش (Quaker, Seismic, Vibrant), لرزنده (Quaker, Shaky, Shuttle), لرزش دار, تحریردار, بیمناک (Careful, Umbrageous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vapiseva (trembling), värisevä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tremblotant, tremblant (trembling), timide, incertain, craintif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zittrig (shaky), zitterig (shakily, shaky, wobbly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρεμάμενοσ (quivering), τρεμουλιαστόσ (quavery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רוע" (quavery, shivery), רוטט (quavery, vibrating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tremoló (tremolo, tremulant, wabble, wobble), reszketeg (doddering, wobbly), reszketõ (doddery, quaky, shaky, shivery, trembling, tremulant), reszkető (bickering, flickery, quaky, quavering, quavery, shaking, shaky, shuddering, trembling, trepidant, vibrant, wobbly), remegõ (aflutter, aspen, quaking, shaking, trembling, trembly, tremulant, wavering), remegő (aflutter, doddering, quaking, quaky, quavering, quavery, shaking, shaky, shuddering, trembling, trepidant, vibrating), félénk (bashful, be shy, be timid, chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, coy, cringing, diffident, faint, faint-hearted, farouche, fearful, fearsome, nervous, poor spirited, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepfaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), félős. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tremante (quivering, shaking, shivering, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | " (Shuddered, Trembled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | craaynagh (horrific, shivery, shocking, vibratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emuloustray tremente (quaking, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant), trêmulo (aspen, doddering, doddery, niddle-noddle, quaking, quaky, shaky, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremolo, tremulant, unsteady), tiritante (shivery, tremulant), tímido (afraid, apprehensive, backward, bashful, blushing, diffident, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, fearsome, gawk, mousey, mousy, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rabbity, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, unassertive), receoso (afraid, apprehensive, quaky, timid, timorous, tremulant, uneasy), nervoso (agitated, ajar, bustling, fidgety, fussy, hysterical, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on edge, restive, skittish, tremulant, uptight), com calafrios (shivery, tremulant). (various references) tremurãtor (faltering, quaking, quavery, quivering, shaky, trembling), şovãitor (at pause, doubtful, dubious, faltering, flexuous, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hesitatingly, irresolute, reluctant, shilly shally, uncertain, undecided, wavering, waveringly). (various references) дрожащий (palsied, quaking, quaky, quavery, quivery, shaky, shivery, trembly, tremulant, vibrant). (various references) treperav (lambent, pulsatory, trembling, trembly, vibrant, wavering), plašljiv (afraid, craven, fearful, fearsome, henhearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, mousey, mousy, scary, shy, timid), lepršav (breezy, flyaway, swaying). (various references) trémulo (shimmering, shimmery, tremulant). (various references) darrande (shaky, tremblng), ängslig (anoxious, anxious, apprehensive, fearful, scrupulous, timid, timorous, uneasy, worried). (various references) titreyen (atremble, quaking, shaking, thrilling, trembling, wavering, wavy), titrek (doddering, doddery, faltering, flickering, plangent, quavery, shaking, shaky, shivery, tipsy, trembling, wavering, wavy, wobbly), huzursuz (anxious, ill at ease, on pins and needles, out of sorts, peaceless, restive, restless, sleepless, uneasy, unrestful, unsettled, worrisome), ürkek (faint, fainthearted, fearful, gun-shy, jumpy, mousy, nervous, nervy, scary, shrinking, shy, skittish, timid, timorous). (various references) тремтячий (faltering, jittery, palsied, quaking, quavery, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, vacillating), нерівний (anomalous, banky, broken, drunken, humpy, inconstant, inequable, irregular, ragged, rough, rugged, splashy, stair-step, tremulant, unequal, uneven, unsteady). (various references) rung rinh (dancing, wavering), rung động nhút nhát, run rung (tremblingly, trembly). (various references) crynedig (trembling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coruscus, tremulus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tremulous": tremulously, tremulousness, tremulousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Tremulous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: temulous, temuous, Trameleuc, Trematomus, Tremeloes, tremolous, tremulos, tremulus, tremuous, Trinucleus, trunculus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tremulous" (pronounced tre"myulus) |
| 6 | -m y u l u s | stimulus. |
| 5 | -y u l u s | calculus, fabulous, meticulous, miraculous, nebulous, populace, populous, ridiculous, scrupulous, unscrupulous. |
| 4 | -u l u s | acropolis, anomalous, Carolus, frivolous, garrulous, incredulous, libelous, marvelous, megalopolis, merciless, metropolis, nautilus, necropolis, Oxalis, pendulous, perilous, querulous, scandalous, scurrilous, syphilis, tantalus. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, callous, callus, careless, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, fruitless, Gallus, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, meaningless, meatless, mindless, motherless, motionless, nameless, necklace, needless, odorless, overzealous, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, penniless, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scoreless, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stylus, surplus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-o-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: moulters, multures, tumulose. | |
-2 letters: emulous, lustrum, luteous, merlots, molters, moulter, multure, mutuels, mutules, oestrum, tumours. | |
-3 letters: estrum, lemurs, luster, lustre, luteum, merlot, metros, molest, molter, morels, morsel, motels, moults, mouser, muster, mutuel, mutule, oleums, ostler, ouster, outers, result, routes, rustle, solute, souter, sterol, stoure, sutler, suture, tousle, tumors, tumour, ulster, uterus. | |
-4 letters: euros, lemur. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-o-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: multicourse, multisource, tremulously. | |
+3 letters: microtubules, monocultures, mournfullest, multicourses, multipurpose, semilustrous, surmountable. | |
+4 letters: microcultures, tremulousness. | |
+5 letters: insurmountable, multireligious, presumptuously. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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