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Trepid

Definition: Trepid

Trepid

Adjective

1. Timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Trepid \Trep"id\, adjective. [Latin expression trepidus.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Trepid

Synonyms: fearful (adj), timorous (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Trepid

English words defined with "trepid": timorously, trepidly. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Trepid

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Books

  • A trepid aviator : Bombay to Bangkok (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Trepid".

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Terror; alarm; anxiety; consternation; dismay; dread; fearfulness; fright; horror; intimidation; panic; shock; trepidation; trepid; fear; afraid.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Trepid

Derivations

Words beginning with "trepid": trepidant, trepidation, trepidations. (additional references)

Words ending with "trepid": intrepid. (additional references)

Words containing "trepid": intrepidities, intrepidity, intrepidly, intrepidness, intrepidnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Trepid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrypid, teroid, Trappit, treip, trepak, trepay, trepids, trepod, Trepov, Trewia, trifids. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Trepid"

Words rhyming with "trepid" (pronounced 'Trep"id'): AEneid, Antacid, Arid, Avid, Biacid, Calid, fetid, florid, Fracid, frigid, gelid, gravid, insipid, intrepid, Lepid, livid, Madid, monacid, Monte-acid, naid, Nitid, Nonacid, Overrigid, Oxacid, Oxid, Oxyacid, Pavid, Pentacid, Placid, Polyacid, Pyroacid, Rabid, rigid, sapid, Semiacid, Semifluid, semisolid, Sipid, solid, spermatozoid, Spumid, squalid, stolid, subacid, Subrigid, Subtepid, Sulphacid, Sursolid, Sylphid, Tabid. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Trepid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: redipt.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-p-r-t"

-1 letter: dript, pride, pried, redip, riped, tepid, tired, tried, tripe.

-2 letters: diet, dipt, dire, dirt, dite, drip, edit, ired, peri, pert, pied, pier, ride, ripe, rite, tide, tied, tier, tire, trip.

-3 letters: die, dip, dit, ire, ped, per, pet, pie, pit, red, rei, rep, ret, rid, rip, ted, tie, tip.

-4 letters: de, ed, er, et.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: diopter, dioptre, diptera, partied, peridot, pirated, predict, preedit, printed, proteid, riptide, spirted, striped, tiderip, tripled, tripped.

 

+2 letters: biparted, decrepit, depicter, depictor, diopters, dioptres, dipteral, dipteran, dipteron, disputer, eupatrid, imparted, imported, intrepid, irrupted, peridots, philtred, picrated, pictured, piedfort, preadmit, preaudit, precited, predicts, preedits, prettied, priested, profited, proteide, proteids, rapidest, respited, riposted, riptides, scripted, spirited, sprinted, spritzed, stripped, stupider, tiderips, topsider, traipsed, tripedal, trophied.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Trepid


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 65 70 69 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .    .--.    ..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100101 01110000 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#101 &#112 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0065 0070 0069 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548471827570

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Sounds
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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