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单词 trepidatious
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Definition of trepidatious in English:

trepidatious

adjective ˌtrɛpɪˈdeɪʃəsˌtrɛpəˈdeɪʃəs
informal
  • Apprehensive or nervous; filled with trepidation.

    if you're trepidatious about foreign travel, start with an English-speaking country
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm a bit trepidatious about posting the link to it on here just yet - after all, many projects of mine has risen and collapsed back into ashes in a matter of days or weeks - so I'll give it time to find some legs before I send any readers over to it.
    • I must confess that I was a little trepidatious of becoming known as the ‘one herb doctor from America‘.
    • J.F. and I have had, at best, a checkered interaction in the past so I am always a little trepidatious about these encounters.
    • He had been expected to join the family again over the weekend but as Barbara Jones remembered, her stepmother had a trepidatious feeling that Tuesday morning, and phoned the house in Bakersfield.
    • He was generally trepidatious of acupuncture, so I gave him the commonest and simplest treatment of liver 3 and colon 4, called the 4 gates, because this releases internal toxic heat from the organs.
    • And I am trepidatious regarding any encounter with these monsters that have been unleashed into our midst.
    • But then when the opportunity and the role opened up for me, you know, then I was trepidatious, because I wasn't sure that I could bring to life, you know, the problems that people have with racism.
    • The trepidatious throngs all fear the big eye in the sky.
    • So while Reznor may be trepidatious about the commercial nature of the album, he has little reason to be.
    • Lyrically, this tells the tale of a trepidatious young bride bidding farewell to her tearful mother on the night before her wedding, in a manner that hints that she might not be entirely thrilled by the prospect.
    • People who are only now coming online strike me as trepidatious pioneers, curious about what's out there but apt to flee homeward if the natives seem hostile.
    • Round the camp fire, someone joked that killing a goat was trepidatious, hubris in such a holy and mystical place.
    Synonyms
    easily frightened, lacking courage, fearful, apprehensive, faint-hearted

Derivatives

  • trepidatiously

  • adverb
    informal
    • Sandler approaches it trepidatiously, contemplates it, and then walks back to his office.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After that bit of comedy, I headed trepidatiously for the water, which was rather chilly last time I was there, earlier this summer.
      • Yet we stepped forth trepidatiously because, after all, we recently had to contend with The Keyboard Disaster.
      • I picked up the first season box set trepidatiously, as it's twice the price of most TV boxes and half the size with thirteen episodes, but if any show was worth it, it's this one.
      • Michelle's family trepidatiously joined the circle holding hands and singing.
 
 

Definition of trepidatious in US English:

trepidatious

adjectiveˌtrɛpəˈdeɪʃəsˌtrepəˈdāSHəs
informal
  • Apprehensive or nervous; filled with trepidation.

    if you're trepidatious about foreign travel, start with an English-speaking country
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm a bit trepidatious about posting the link to it on here just yet - after all, many projects of mine has risen and collapsed back into ashes in a matter of days or weeks - so I'll give it time to find some legs before I send any readers over to it.
    • But then when the opportunity and the role opened up for me, you know, then I was trepidatious, because I wasn't sure that I could bring to life, you know, the problems that people have with racism.
    • He had been expected to join the family again over the weekend but as Barbara Jones remembered, her stepmother had a trepidatious feeling that Tuesday morning, and phoned the house in Bakersfield.
    • People who are only now coming online strike me as trepidatious pioneers, curious about what's out there but apt to flee homeward if the natives seem hostile.
    • Round the camp fire, someone joked that killing a goat was trepidatious, hubris in such a holy and mystical place.
    • He was generally trepidatious of acupuncture, so I gave him the commonest and simplest treatment of liver 3 and colon 4, called the 4 gates, because this releases internal toxic heat from the organs.
    • I must confess that I was a little trepidatious of becoming known as the ‘one herb doctor from America‘.
    • Lyrically, this tells the tale of a trepidatious young bride bidding farewell to her tearful mother on the night before her wedding, in a manner that hints that she might not be entirely thrilled by the prospect.
    • So while Reznor may be trepidatious about the commercial nature of the album, he has little reason to be.
    • And I am trepidatious regarding any encounter with these monsters that have been unleashed into our midst.
    • The trepidatious throngs all fear the big eye in the sky.
    • J.F. and I have had, at best, a checkered interaction in the past so I am always a little trepidatious about these encounters.
    Synonyms
    easily frightened, lacking courage, fearful, apprehensive, faint-hearted
 
 
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