Word Meaning

Meaning of "trepidation" and the crossword clue

- Alarm
- Apprehension
- Fear
- Feeling of dread
- Nic abandoned intrepid action out of fear
- An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
- Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
- A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.