Shivery

/ˈʃɪvəɹi/

Synonyms for "shivery" (104 found)

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Closest matches (21)

agitated aguey aguish algidall shook upall-overish aquiver arctic aspen bashfulblue with coldbreakable brittlebrittle as glasschattering chill chilly cold cool cowardly

Adjective(1 words)

chilling

Strong matches (31)

crackable crisp crispy crumbly crushable delicate diffident dithery fearful fearing fearsome fidgeting fidgety fissile flimsy fluttery fracturable fragile frail frangible

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freezing friable frigid frosty frozenfrozen to deathgoosy half-frozen

Adjective(3 words)

eerie frigid icy

Related words (52)

in a quiverin fearjittery jumpy lacerable mousy nervous nippy palsied quaking quavering quavery quivering quivery rabbity scary scissile shaking shaky shatterable

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shattery shiveringshook upshrinking shuddering shy skittery skittish splintery startlish succussatory succussive timid timorous trembling trembly tremulant tremulous trepidanttrigger happytrigger-happy twitchy twittery vibrating vulnerablewith chattering teethwobbly

Adjective(5 words)

scary shivering shuddery thrilling trembling

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More general

3 entries

adjectivecolloquial termdescriptor

More specific

4 entries

eerie frosty icy thrilling

Collocations

6 entries

shivery airshivery coldshivery fearshivery memoryshivery sensationshivery wind

Inflections

2 entries

more shiverymost shivery

Derivations

2 entries

shiver shiveriness

similar

3 entries

alarming cold spoopy

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The cold night made me all shivery.

Source: wiktionary

Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.

Source: wiktionary

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