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What is the adjective for trepidity?

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trepidatory
  1. That trepidates, or that causes trepidations.
  2. Of an earthquake, having a vertical, up-and-down motion, as opposed to a horizontal, side-to-side motion.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Russell took his usual chair and the usual trepidatory sip, and was pleasantly surprised.”
      “The most severe shock lasted for 70 seconds, and combined oscillatory, trepidatory, and rotatory movement.”
      “The particular trepidatory and oscillatory patterns arising from the lake bed especially afflicted high-rise buildings between six and fifteen stories.”
trepidant
  1. (rare) Trembling with fear or emotion.
  2. (medicine) Marked by trembling or tremor.
trepid
  1. timid, timorous, fearful
  2. Examples:
    1. “First, courts appear to be less trepid in making precise and detailed orders about what particular services are to be provided and how.”
      “In Linwood Barclay's fourth novel featuring trepid newspaper writer Zack Walker, Zack falls into two dangerous situations.”
trepidative
  1. (very rare, nonstandard) Causing or having the quality of trepidation.
  2. Examples:
    1. Trepidative moments trailed off around him, the broad beam of the moon bewitched him.”
trepidacious
  1. Alternative spelling of trepidatious
trepidatious
  1. In a state of trepidation.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “My dog is trepidatious around strangers and often barks loudly to express her unease.”
      “So while Reznor may be trepidatious about the commercial nature of the album, he has little reason to be.”
      “Round the camp fire, someone joked that killing a goat was trepidatious, hubris in such a holy and mystical place.”
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