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Definition: Shivery |
ShiveryAdjective1. Cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather". 2. So scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shivery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
Synonyms: ShiverySynonyms: chilling (adj), scarey (adj), scary (adj), shuddery (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Brittleness | Adjective: brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting. Verb: lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass. |
Pulverulence | Pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized. Verb: attrite; in pieces. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | One Shivery Night (1950) | |
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| "Shivery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shivery" is used about 40 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% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "shivery": feel shivery. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shivery": shivery-shakes. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shivery | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shivery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që dridhet (palsied, quaking, quaky, quavery), mërdhicak. (various references) | |
Arabic | محموم (feverish, hectic), مرتعش (quavering, quavery, quivering, shaking, shaky, shivering, tremulous), مرتعد (shaking, shuddering, trembling, tremulous), مرتجف (tremulous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разтреперан (quaky, quavery, shaky), чуплив (brash, breakable, brittle, egg shell, fragile, frail, frangible, short, slight, tender, weak), трескав (agog, aguey, aguish, febrile, fevered, feverish, hectic, pyretic), треперещ (niddle-noddle, quaking, shaking, shaky, trembling, trembly, tremulous, vibrant, wavering), зъзнещ. (various references) | |
Czech | třesoucí (doddered). (various references) | |
French | tremblant, frissonnant, fiévreux. (various references) | |
German | fröstelnd, fiebrig (febrile, feverish). (various references) | |
Greek | ριγών, τρέμων (creepy, palsied, trembly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רוע" (quavery, tremulous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | reszketős (quavering, quavery), didergős, didergő (shuddering), borzongós, borzongó (shuddering). (various references) | |
Italian | tremante (quivering, shaking, shivering, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, tremulously), che a i brividi. (various references) | |
Manx | lhejagh (congealable, hardening, numb, setting, trembling), craaynagh (horrific, shocking, tremulous, vibratory). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iveryshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tremente (quaking, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous), trêmulo (aspen, doddering, doddery, niddle-noddle, quaking, quaky, shaky, trembling, trembly, tremolo, tremulant, tremulous, unsteady), tiritante (tremulant, tremulous), com calafrios (tremulant, tremulous). (various references) | |
Romanian | sfãrâmicios (breakable, brittle), fragil (breakable, brittle, crisp, fine-spun, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, handle with care, Sandy, slender, with care), care tremurã (palpitant, palsied). (various references) | |
Russian | ломкий (breakable, brittle, crisp, fragile, frangible), пугливый (fearful, flighty, jittery, scary, skittish, timid), дрожащий (palsied, quaking, quaky, quavery, quivery, shaky, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, vibrant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lomljiv (brittle), krhak (breakable), koji izaziva drhtanje, drhtav (aspen, doddering, doddery, quaking, quaky, quavery, shaking, shaky, trembly, tremulant), cvokotav. (various references) | |
Spanish | friolero (chilly), estremecido, estremecedor (alarming), destemplado (distempered). (various references) | |
Swedish | huttrande, darrig (jumpy, trembling). (various references) | |
Turkish | titrek (doddering, doddery, faltering, flickering, plangent, quavery, shaking, shaky, tipsy, trembling, tremulous, wavering, wavy, wobbly), tüyler ürpertici (bloodcurdling, crawly, dreadfull, eerie, eery, formidable, grisly, hair raising, haircurling, unearthly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тремтячий (faltering, jittery, palsied, quaking, quavery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, vacillating), трепетний, крихкий (brash, brittle, eager, flimsy, fragile, frail, friable). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | run rẩy (quaky, shivering), run lên, lẩy bẩy l m rung lên, l m sợ run lên, l m run rẩy; l m rét run lên, dễ vỡ th nh mảnh. (various references) | |
Welsh | anwydog (chilly, cold, having a cold). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Shivery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jhaveri, Schaverien, Sheeffry, shevery, Shiderly, Shifra, shitey, shivalry, shivere, shiverly, Shuvorn, Siberry, sivery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "shivery" (pronounced 'Shiv"er*y'): Acceleratory, Antislavery, Apery, Archery, Ashery, Asseveratory, Averpenny, Babery, Baboonery, Bakery, Barkery, Belligerently, Bewitchery, bindery, Bleachery, Bloomery, Boilery, botcherly, botchery, Branchery, Bravery, Brewery, Bribery, Broidery, Buffoonery, Butcherly, Butchery, Cajolery, Chafery, Chicanery, Cholericly, Cinerary, Cleverly, Clouterly, Clownery, Coalery, Cocoonery, Collaterally, Commandery, Congeneracy, Considerably, Consideringly, Cookery, Covertly, Creamery, Crockery, Cutchery, Deanery, Debauchery, Degeneracy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-r-s-v-y" | |
-1 letter: shiver, shrive. | |
-2 letters: heirs, hires, hives, rives, shier, shire, shive, shyer, siver, viers, vires. | |
-3 letters: heir, hers, hies, hire, hive, ires, reis, resh, revs, rise, rive, ryes, shiv, shri, sire, very, vier, vies, vise. | |
-4 letters: ers, her, hes, hey, hie, his, ire, ivy, rei, res, rev, rye, sei, ser, she, shy, sir, sri, vie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-r-s-v-y" | |
+3 letters: feverishly, shrievalty. | |
+4 letters: viceroyship. | |
+5 letters: hyperactives, hypertensive, viceroyships. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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