Shivery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shivery \Shiv"er*y\, a.
     1. Tremulous; shivering. --Mallet.
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     2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shivery
       adj 1: cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery
              weather"
       2: so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible
          and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: {chilling},
           {scarey}, {scary}, {shuddery}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "shivery":
     agitated, aguey, aguish, algid, all shook up, all-overish, aquiver,
     arctic, aspen, bashful, blue with cold, breakable, brittle,
     brittle as glass, chattering, chill, chilly, cold, cool, cowardly,
     crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, delicate, diffident,
     dithery, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fidgeting, fidgety, fissile,
     flimsy, fluttery, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, freezing,
     friable, frigid, frosty, frozen, frozen to death, goosy,
     half-frozen, in a quiver, in fear, jittery, jumpy, lacerable,
     mousy, nervous, nippy, palsied, quaking, quavering, quavery,
     quivering, quivery, rabbity, scary, scissile, shaking, shaky,
     shatterable, shattery, shivering, shook up, shrinking, shuddering,
     shy, skittery, skittish, splintery, startlish, succussatory,
     succussive, timid, timorous, trembling, trembly, tremulant,
     tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, twitchy, twittery, vibrating,
     vulnerable, with chattering teeth, wobbly