shivery


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shiv·er·y 1

 (shĭv′ə-rē)
adj.
1. Trembling, as from cold or fear.
2. Causing shivers; chilling.

shiv·er·y 2

 (shĭv′ə-rē)
adj.
Easily broken; brittle.
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shivery

(ˈʃɪvərɪ)
adj
1. inclined to shiver or tremble
2. causing shivering, esp through cold or fear
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shiv•er•y1

(ˈʃɪv ə ri)

adj.
1. inclined to shiver.
2. causing shivers.

shiv•er•y2

(ˈʃɪv ə ri)

adj.
readily breaking into fragments.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.shivery - cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather"
cold - having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer"
2.shivery - provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
chilling, scarey, scary, shuddery
alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
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shivery

adjective shaky, cold, chilled, quaking, chilly, trembly, shuddery, quivery She felt shivery and a little sick.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

shivery

adjective
1. Marked by or affected with tremors:
aquiver, quaky, quivery, shaky, tremulant, tremulous, twittery.
2. Marked by a low temperature:
chill, chilly, cold, cool, nippy.
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Translations
مُرْتَجِف، مُرْتَعِد من الخَوْف
chvějivý
reszketős
skjálfandi
chvejúci saroztrasený
ürpertici

shivery

[ˈʃɪvərɪ] ADJ (= feverish) → destemplado; (= shaking) → estremecido; (= sensitive to cold) → friolero, friolento (LAm)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

shivery

[ˈʃɪvəri] adj (from the cold) → grelottant(e); (with illness) → grelottant(e); (with fear) → tremblant(e)
to feel shivery → grelotter
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shivery

adj to feel shivery → frösteln; the ’flu made him a bit shivery → wegen seiner Grippe fröstelte er leicht
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

shivery

[ˈʃɪvərɪ] adj (from cold) → che ha i brividi; (from fear) → tremante
I feel shivery → ho i brividi
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

shiver

(ˈʃivə) verb
to quiver or tremble (with cold, fear etc).
noun
an act of shivering.
ˈshivery adjective
inclined to shiver. The mention of ghosts gave her a shivery feeling.
the shivers
a feeling of horror. The thought of working for him gives me the shivers.
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