shivery

3 definitions found

shivery - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Shivery \Shiv"er*y\, a.
     1. Tremulous; shivering. --Mallet.
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     2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
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shivery - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  shivery
      adj 1: cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery";
             "shivery weather"
      2: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible
         and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling,
         scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]

shivery - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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