TREMULOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tremulous mean? 

• TREMULOUS (adjective)
  The adjective TREMULOUS has 1 sense:

1. (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear

  Familiarity information: TREMULOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREMULOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear

Synonyms:

quavering; tremulous

Context example:

spoke timidly in a tremulous voice

Similar:

unsteady (subject to change or variation)

 Context examples 

She gave me a quick look, and again I caught that dancing, tremulous light and something more in her eyes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Klosh-Kwan finally asked in a tremulous voice.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The fabric of her life, of all that constituted her, quivered and grew tremulous.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“How is it with you, lady?” he asked at last, in a tremulous voice.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Am I to answer, then?” I asked with a very tremulous voice.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I could see by the tremulous light that even Van Helsing's iron nerve had failed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mas'r Davy, he said, in a low tremulous voice, when it was covered, I thank my Heav'nly Father as my dream's come true!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So, placing the candle with great caution on a chair, she seized the key with a very tremulous hand and tried to turn it; but it resisted her utmost strength.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

With hasty indignation, therefore, and a tremulous voice, she said to him, You do not seem afraid of not keeping your countenance when I come in with a basket of provisions—though one might have supposed—but it is only as Agatha that I was to be so overpowering!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If it is impossible to be at your ease, it is equally impossible to be dull in his company, for one is always in a state of half-tremulous doubt as to what sudden turn his formidable temper may take.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)