shuddersomeadj.
Causing a shudder. Also transferred, inclined to shudder.
ΘΚΠ
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
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > shuddering with fear > inclined to shudder
tremebundc1560
quaky1860
shuddersome1969
1893 Strand Mag. 6 694 Below the nose a pale, ghastly, half-open mouth. It was shuddersome.
1893 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Dec. 11/2 There is something ghastly, something shuddersome about the little piece.
1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xxii. 168 Eastern daggers of shuddersome shape, weapons of many nations.
1969 O. Blakeston For crying out Shroud iii. 29 I don't..really feel so shuddersome about the smallest of bald patches.
Derivatives
ˈshuddersomely adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [adverb] > in a manner that causes a shudder
shuddersomely1903
1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise ii. 52 One of those shuddersomely refined affairs that are supposed to be meat and drink to the giddy suburbanite.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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