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trepidant

trepidant adjective: trembling with fear or emotion.

Adjective

trepidant (comparative more trepidant, superlative most trepidant)

  1. (rare) Trembling with fear or emotion.
    • The good old Duke – no, the General, called me all trepidant to him, smiled, asked my age and service, liked the wire, and passed into the village.1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 131
  2. (archaic) Marked by trembling or tremor.

trepidant meaning in Tamil

trepidant in Tamil

நடுக்கம்

Forms of trepidant

comparativemore trepidant
superlativemost trepidant

Origin of trepidant

From Latin trepidantem.

Words formed from trepidant

Questions about trepidant

What does trepidant mean?
Trepidant means trembling with fear or emotion.
What is trepidant in Tamil?
Trepidant in Tamil is நடுக்கம். See Trepidant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trepidant?
Trepidant is an adjective.

Words near trepidant in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trepidant (page history and authors); trepidant (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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