Word.ws English Dictionary

spinetingling

spinetingling is the alternative form of spine-tingling.

Meaning of spine-tingling

Adjective

spine-tingling (comparative more spine-tingling, superlative most spine-tingling)

  1. (idiomatic) Scary, exciting or exhilarating.
    • Inside the ground, they saw parachutists land on the Nursery Ground before the spine-tingling spectacle of the national anthems.2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London

Forms of spinetingling

comparativemore spinetingling
superlativemost spinetingling

Questions about spinetingling

What is spinetingling the alternative form of?
Spinetingling is the alternative form of spine-tingling.

Words near spinetingling in the dictionary

  1. spinescent
  2. spinescently
  3. spinet
  4. spinetail
  5. spinetails
  6. spinetingling
  7. spinetoram
  8. spinets
  9. spinette
  10. spinetted
  11. spinettes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spinetingling (page history and authors); spine-tingling (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spinetingling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spinetingling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.