tremulous

tremulous
    adj 1: (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the
           old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a
           tremulous voice" [syn: {quavering}, {tremulous}]
    

Tremulous \Trem"u*lous\, a. [L. tremulus, fr. tremere to
   tremble. See {Tremble}.]
   1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a
      tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous
      leaf of the poplar.
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   2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
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            The tender, tremulous Christian.      --Dr. H. More.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Trem"u*lous*ly}, adv. --
      {Trem"u*lous*ness}, n.
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92 Moby Thesaurus words for "tremulous":
      afraid, agitated, aguish, all shook up, all-overish, anxious,
      aquiver, aspen, bashful, blurred, breathy, chattering, choked,
      choking, cowardly, croaking, diffident, doubtful, drawling, drawly,
      dysphonic, faltering, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fidgeting,
      fidgety, fluttery, frightened, goosy, guttural, harsh, hawking,
      hesitant, hoarse, in a quiver, in fear, inarticulate, indistinct,
      jittery, jumpy, lisping, mispronounced, mousy, muzzy, nasal,
      nervous, palpitating, palsied, quaking, quavering, quavery,
      quivering, quivery, rabbity, scared, scary, shaking, shaky,
      shivering, shivery, shook up, shrinking, shuddering, shy, skittery,
      skittish, snuffling, startlish, stifled, strangled, succussatory,
      succussive, thick, throaty, timid, timorous, trembling, trembly,
      tremulant, trepidant, trigger-happy, twangy, twitchy, twittery,
      unsteady, unsure, velar, vibrating, wavering, wobbly, worried