'Trembling' definitions:
Definition of 'trembling'
From: WordNet
adjective
Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: shaky, shivering, trembling]
noun
Definition of 'Trembling'
From: GCIDE
- Tremble \Trem"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trembled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trembling.] [F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling, tremulous, fr. tremere to shake, tremble; akin to Gr. ?, Lith. trimti. Cf. Tremulous, Tremor.]
- 1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. [1913 Webster]
- I tremble still with fear. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing. [1913 Webster]
- The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trembling'
From: GCIDE
- Trembling \Trem"bling\, a. Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- {Trem"bling*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
- Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trembling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitated,
- ague,
- all shook up,
- all-overish,
- aquiver,
- aspen,
- bashful,
- bumpiness,
- chattering,
- chorea,
- cold shivers,
- cowardly,
- didder,
- diffident,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dithers,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgeting,
- fidgets,
- fidgety,
- fits and starts,
- flutter,
- fluttery,
- goosy,
- heaving,
- in a quiver,
- in fear,
- inquietude,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jerkiness,
- jittery,
- joltiness,
- jumpy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- palpitation,
- palsied,
- palsy,
- panting,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- quaking,
- quaver,
- quavering,
- quavery,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rabbity,
- restlessness,
- scary,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shiver,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shivery,
- shook up,
- shrinking,
- shudder,
- shuddering,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- spasms,
- startlish,
- succussatory,
- succussion,
- succussive,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- timid,
- timorous,
- tremble,
- trembly,
- tremor,
- tremulant,
- tremulous,
- tremulousness,
- trepidant,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trigger-happy,
- twitchy,
- twitter,
- twittery,
- unrest,
- vibrating,
- vibration,
- wobbly