quivering

quivering
Synonyms and related words:
aflicker, agitated, ague, all shook up, all-overish, anxious, apprehensive, aquiver, aspen, bickering, blinking, bumpiness, chattering, chorea, cold shivers, dance, dancing, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, fidgetiness, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgety, fits and starts, flashing, flicker, flickering, flickering light, flickery, flicky, flutter, fluttering, fluttery, glancing light, heaving, in a quiver, in suspense, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, jittery, joltiness, jumpy, keyed-up, lambency, lambent, light show, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, play of light, playing, quaking, quaver, quavering, quavery, quiver, quivery, restlessness, shakes, shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivers, shivery, shook up, shudder, shuddering, skittery, spasms, stroboscopic, succussatory, succussion, succussive, taut, tense, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling, trembly, tremor, tremulant, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidation, trepidity, twitchy, twitter, twittery, unrest, vibrating, vibration, wavering, wavery, with bated breath, with muscles tense, wobbly

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  • quivering — index trepidation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • quivering — 1. adjective shaking, shivering The quivering mass of jello rocked back and forth incessantly but remained on the plate. 2. noun A motion by which something quivers or trembles. quiverings of the eyelid …   Wiktionary

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  • quivering — side to side head movements, a sign of courtship in many male fishes, particularly cichlids. The female may or may not respond by doing the same …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • quivering — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. shuddering, shivering, shaking, quavering, tremulous, fluttering, trembling, vibrating …   English dictionary for students

  • quivering — quiv·er || kwɪvÉ™(r) n. shiver, shudder; case for carrying arrows v. shiver, quake, tremble, shudder …   English contemporary dictionary

  • quivering — adj quivery, quavering, quavery, quaver ous, vibrating, trembling, trembly, tremulous, tremulant, shaking, shaky; quaking, quaky, shuddering, shuddery, shivering, shivery; flickering, flickery, fluttering, fluttery, oscillating, oscillatory,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • quivering — noun 1. a shaky motion the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe • Syn: ↑shaking, ↑shakiness, ↑trembling, ↑quiver, ↑vibration, ↑palpitation • Derivationally related forms …   Useful english dictionary

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