trepidatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That trepidates, or that causes trepidations.
adj
Of an earthquake, having a vertical, up-and-down motion, as opposed to a horizontal, side-to-side motion.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Russell took his usual chair and the usual trepidatory sip, and was pleasantly surprised."
- "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."
- "The most severe shock lasted for 70 seconds, and combined oscillatory, trepidatory, and rotatory movement."
- "The particular trepidatory and oscillatory patterns arising from the lake bed especially afflicted high-rise buildings between six and fifteen stories."
Inflected Forms
more trepidatory (comparative)
most trepidatory (superlative)