quivering

Speech parts

1. quivering - Noun

2. quivering - Adjective

3. quivering - Verb

Meaning

of Quiver

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vibration shaking trembling quiver palpitation shakiness aspen oscillation quake pulsation shudder tremor shake oscillating flicker
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Antonyms

dauntless still strong intrepid unruffled constant
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Hypernyms

move movement motion motility

Hyponyms

shudder tremor tremolo

Examples

O woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Walter Scott

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. George Sand

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once. Cornelia Funke

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. Joseph Addison

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing. Don DeLillo

We reach vague-gesturing hands, we lift our heads, Hear sounds far off,-and dream, with quivering breath, Our curious separate ways through life and death. Conrad Aiken

Close letter words and terms

quiverer quiverful Quiverfull quiveringly quiverish quiverleaf