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形容詞

trepidatious (comparative more trepidatious, superlative most trepidatious)

1. In a state of trepidation; fearful.
   • 1904, Bertram Mitford, The Sirdar's Oath, F. V. White:

     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.

   • 2020, Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life, Dial Press, →ISBN:

     He looks a little trepidatious too, and we both laugh awkwardly as he nears me.

   • 2023 February 27, Elle Hunt, “‘Don’t make Frasier best friends with Elon Musk!’ Writers and comics offer their reboot tips”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Factor in Grammer’s outspoken Trumpism, which complicates the legacy of his defining role, and fans may be forgiven for feeling trepidatious.

派生語

• trepidatiously
• trepidatiousness