Have you ever been trepidatious?

@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

That's exactly how it was with us. I'm so glad we went.

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vanny

@vandana7 (102698)

• India

10 Oct 24

The correct spelling in Americanese is Trepedeeshius. I am sure, somebody will come up with an American dictionary with your spellings...

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vanny

@vandana7 (102698)

• India

10 Oct 24

@JudyEv There is a level of discomfort at later stages to meet the friends out here....if I have not done as well as them, would they want to be friends with me, or would they ignore me, or laugh at me....the west does not have that kinda situation...here it is there...

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14786)

• Ireland

10 Oct 24

@judyev It’s one of those words you like to have in your vocabulary but you never remember to use till the moment has passed.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14786)

• Ireland

10 Oct 24

@JudyEv I do confess a desire to rescue excellent words from desuetude.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

@xFiacre Exactly!!

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

Exactly although you manage to use a few in your discussions.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (120944)

• United States

10 Oct 24

It just rolls off the tongue, huh.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

Most would know trepidation but not trepidatious. Underwhelmed seems to have come into the vocabulary too although once I never used to hear it.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502656)

• Italy

10 Oct 24

Trepidation has an adjective form also in Italian, but it's less used (trepido, trepidante, trepidazione - trepidous, trepidant, trepidation) The words are from Latin.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502656)

• Italy

10 Oct 24

@JudyEv - I think the word is also less used than in the past.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

That's interesting that the adjective isn't much used in Italian either.

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rakski

@rakski (156547)

• Philippines

10 Oct 24

I felt trepidatious when I stepped in front of a crowd of parents for the general assembly. woah, such a big word. I am learning too

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rakski

@rakski (156547)

• Philippines

10 Oct 24

@JudyEv I wish I can use it here though

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Oct 24

@rakski People might think you were trying to be too clever.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

You've used it for exactly the right circumstance.

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M Cheung

@Beestring (15372)

• Hong Kong

10 Oct 24

I don't know the word "trepidatious". Learned something new.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

I can't imagine I'll hear it too often. lol

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (169489)

• United States

11 Oct 24

I think I am trepidatious a lot, but I do not use that word.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Oct 24

It's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?

snowy

@snowy22315 (209044)

• United States

10 Oct 24

or you could just cheat and say a no fun word like fearful.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (209044)

• United States

11 Oct 24

@JudyEv Falls to the ground stunned by cleverness...

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Oct 24

I thought I might stun people with my cleverness!

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much2say

@much2say (57760)

• Los Angeles, California

11 Oct 24

Sometimes I have used adjectival and adverbial forms to words, with trepidation

. . .not sure if these words officially exist, but if the reader didn't think anything of it, then it's all good

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Oct 24

I'm sure most words have their adjectival and adverbial forms but I'd never heard of trepidatious so I wasn't sure about that one.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (153529)

• India

11 Oct 24

Why not just say nervious!! I was trepdatious suggesting this to you

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Oct 24

You've go the meaning right!

OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

12 Oct 24

Yes I am that a lot..with trepidation that is.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Oct 24

I'd use trepidation but I'd hesitate to use trepiditious.

Judy Story

@jstory07 (148749)

• Roseburg, Oregon

10 Oct 24

That is a word that I would never use. But it is nice to know the meaning of it.

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 24

I find it interesting to find out such things. I can't imagine I'll ever use it either.

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MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (91126)

• United States

10 Oct 24

I've been trepidatious many times but I agree that both forms of those words do seem 'clunky'

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Oct 24

There are easier words that mean the same. If someone said trepidatious to me, I have to switch while I worked out what it meant.

Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (21492)

• London, England

11 Oct 24

Indeed, but not a word use that often. Still, you never know when it is going to come in handy

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@JudyEv (382329)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Oct 24

It might be useful to stun someone with one day.

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