Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking.
- adj. Timid or fearful; timorous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Trembling; shaking; quivering; vibrating; unsteady.
- Lacking firmness, resolution, or courage; feeble; wavering; timid.
- In entomology, finely wavy: as, a tremulous line.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
Etymologies
- From Latin tremulus, from tremō ("I shake"). Compare with Greek τρέμω (trémō). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin tremulus, from tremere, to tremble. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Pool clapped his hands, and the little maid ran out of the house to him in tremulous, fluttery haste.”
“In the first gush of our sorrow and our indignation because of this atrocity, we waited not for any official prompting to pour forth our grief in tremulous, glowing words of mingled emotion, as the irrepressible bidding of our hearts draped our homes and our sanctuaries in the weeds of a national funeral.”
A Discourse in Memory of our Late President, Abraham Lincoln
“He spoke – but no soft voice in tremulous whispers, replied.”
“I recalled the tremulous hand that he had offered me.”
“Greatly daring, he had himself written to Veranilda; in brief terms, but every word tremulous with his passion.”
“She lowered her eyelids, and the deeper breathing of her bosom gave to her voice when she did speak a tremulous tone: --”
“But, just a suggestion, I wouldn't use "tremulous" that early in a book, the people picking the book up at the store that are glancing at the first few paragraphs to see if they like the writing may put it down because they may think it's over their heads.”
“As the teacher read on, her color changed, and a kind of tremulous agitation came over her.”
“Sauvages, by this just distinction, actually separates this kind of tremulous motion, and which is the kind peculiar to this disease, from the Genus Tremor.”
“There was a kind of tremulous defiance in her tone, as if she half expected me to question it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tremulous’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
replete, steeped, eminent, indiscriminate, voracious, automaton, prognosticate, technology, abound, matron, tinge, compound and 297 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Words describing singing voices
mellifluous, gravelly, rusty bathtub, velvet fog, howling, laconic, fluttering, quavery, hypnotic, stilted, lilting, sonorous and 47 more...
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Of sounds and voices
tongue, alveolar, plosive, full-voiced, sibilant, hissing, fricative, guttural, wharl, burr, velar, palatalize and 29 more...
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The blues
lugubrious, mournful, doleful, plaintive, tremulous, plangent, dyspeptic, morose, poignant, lamenting, lamentation, sad and 8 more...
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EN - high brow
abrogate, abstemious, abstract of law, alderman, apocryphal, apostasy, apoplexy, apotheosis, apposite, aver, decorous, apprehensive and 51 more...
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SAT words
tergiversate, cymotrichous, vigilance, wince, consternation, cower, neutralize, euphony, cacophony, misanthrope, bibliophile, kleptomania and 81 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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passive
words of inaction
abeyance, bathetic, nullify, timorous, cunctator, reticent, inertia, stagnant, languid, staid, tarry, fallow and 13 more...
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kringlan Quite interesting is that the aspen tree with its forever trembling leaves, has as its latin name Populus tremula. Jul 8, 2008