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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. cold enough to cause shivers;
- Example: "felt all shivery"
- Example: "shivery weather"

2. provoking fear terror;
- Example: "a scary movie"
- Example: "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
[syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shivery \Shiv"er*y\, a. 1. Tremulous; shivering. --Mallet. [1913 Webster] 2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shivery adj 1: cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather" 2: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "shivery": agitated, aguey, aguish, algid, all shook up, all-overish, aquiver, arctic, aspen, bashful, blue with cold, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, chattering, chill, chilly, cold, cool, cowardly, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, delicate, diffident, dithery, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fidgeting, fidgety, fissile, flimsy, fluttery, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, freezing, friable, frigid, frosty, frozen, frozen to death, goosy, half-frozen, in a quiver, in fear, jittery, jumpy, lacerable, mousy, nervous, nippy, palsied, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, rabbity, scary, scissile, shaking, shaky, shatterable, shattery, shivering, shook up, shrinking, shuddering, shy, skittery, skittish, splintery, startlish, succussatory, succussive, timid, timorous, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, twitchy, twittery, vibrating, vulnerable, with chattering teeth, wobbly