How do you pronounce trepidation?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/.

trepidation

/ˌtɹɛp.ɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English

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noun

Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

"I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me."
"She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly."
"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?"
"When I went, I left from the station / With a haversack and some trepidation"
"The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men."

Borrowed from Latin trepidātiō, from trepidō (“be agitated”).

trepidations (plural)

intrepid trepid trepidancy trepidate trepidatious trepidatiously trepidatiousness trepidatory

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