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trepidacious

trepidacious is the alternative spelling of trepidatious.

Meaning of trepidatious

Adjective

trepidatious (comparative more trepidatious, superlative most trepidatious)

  1. In a state of trepidation; fearful.
    • Hilda looked up from the papers she had been busy with as he entered -- in fact, made a guilty and trepdatious attempt at sweeping them out of sight, which suggested a weakness entirely foreign to her.1904, Bertram Mitford, The Sirdar's Oath, F. V. White

Forms of trepidacious

comparativemore trepidacious
superlativemost trepidacious

Questions about trepidacious

What is trepidacious the alternative spelling of?
Trepidacious is the alternative spelling of trepidatious.

Words near trepidacious in the dictionary

  1. trephocytes
  2. trephone
  3. trephones
  4. trepibutone
  5. trepid
  6. trepidacious
  7. trepidancy
  8. trepidant
  9. trepidate
  10. trepidated
  11. trepidates

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