Adjective: trepidatory
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more trepidatory |
| Superlative | most trepidatory |
Sample Sentences
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Unfortunately, like Guthrie he has never given a formal statement of his principles, and it is therefore up to the reader to ferret out these things for himself — always a trepidatory procedure. [1953, Charles Egerton Osgood, Method and Theory in Experimental Psychology:]
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This was all very good news for the Church bishops because the shapeshifting werewolf had a limited trepidatory function, especially in places like England where wolves were generally unknown, although some existed then to the north in Scotland. [2003, Laurence Gardner, Realm of the Ring Lords:]
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Russell took his usual chair and the usual trepidatory sip, and was pleasantly surprised. [2008, David Downing, Silesian Station:]
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This [earthquake] was felt at Mexico at precisely the same hour, lasting there about one minute and a half, the motion there being undulatory, but at Acapulco trepidatory. [1843, Captin Sir Edward Belcher RN, Narrative of a Voyage Round the World:]
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The most severe shock lasted for 70 seconds, and combined oscillatory, trepidatory, and rotatory movement. [1882, Knowledge, volume 1:]
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The particular trepidatory and oscillatory patterns arising from the lake bed especially afflicted high-rise buildings between six and fifteen stories. [1995, Elena Poniatowska, Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, Arthur Schmidt, Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake:]
Adjectives inflected like trepidatory
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology