shivery
/ˈʃɪvəɹi/
shivery adjective: given to shivering; tending to shiver.
Adjective
shivery (comparative shiverier, superlative shiveriest)
- Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
- The cold night made me all shivery.
- Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.1878 June, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Man Himself—His House, and Tools”, in The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 2
- Easily broken; brittle, flaky.
shivery meaning in Malayalam
shivery in Malayalam
- trembly, trembling, quivery
- വേപിത, വിറയ്ക്കുന്ന, കിടുകിടുക്കുന്ന, വിറച്ചുതുള്ളുന്ന, വിറയലുള്ള, പതറുന്ന
Forms of shivery
| comparative | shiverier |
|---|---|
| superlative | shiveriest |
Origin of shivery
From shiver + -y.
Words formed from shivery
Words that rhyme with shivery
Questions about shivery
- What does shivery mean?
- Shivery means given to shivering; tending to shiver.
- What is shivery in Malayalam?
- Shivery in Malayalam is വേപിത, വിറയ്ക്കുന്ന, കിടുകിടുക്കുന്ന. See Shivery meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is shivery?
- Shivery is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce shivery?
- Shivery is pronounced /ˈʃɪvəɹi/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shivery (page history and authors); shivery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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