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shivery
CIDE DICTIONARY
shivery, a.
- Tremulous; shivering. Mallet. [1913 Webster]
- Easily broken; brittle; shattery. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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, wobblyROGET THESAURUS
shivery
Brittleness
N brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.Pulverulence
N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.For further exploring for "shivery" in Webster Dictionary Online