trepidation
noun/ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/UK
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trepidātiō, from trepidō (“be agitated”).
- borrowed from trepidātiō
Definitions
Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence.
- I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.
- She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror…
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear.
A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system
A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
The neighborhood
- neighborintrepid
- neighbortrepid
- neighbortrepidancy
- neighbortrepidate
- neighbortrepidatious
- neighbortrepidatiously
- neighbortrepidatiousness
- neighbortrepidatory
- neighbortrepidity
- neighbortrepidly
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for trepidation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA