shudderyadj.
Characterized by or causing shuddering; ‘creepy’.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [adjective] > causing quaking
quakeful1609
shuddering1848
shuddery1863
shuddersome1893
shudderful1901
shiversome1930
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adjective] > trembling or quivering > from cold, infirmity, or emotion > from cold, fear, or repugnance > causing
shuddering1848
shuddery1863
shuddersome1893
shudderful1901
1863 R. S. Hawker in Life (1905) 450 My health is shuddery—nine-tenths mental too.
1880 World 9 June Wilkie Collins grows..more spectral and shuddery.
Derivatives
ˈshudderiness n.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > quality of causing shuddering
shudderiness1874
1874 R. H. Hutton Crit. Contemp. Th. (1894) I. 68 The dreary hopelessness and shudderiness,..if I may coin a word, of the mood depicted.
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