"shivery" meaning in English

See shivery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: shiverier [comparative], shiveriest [superlative]
Etymology: shiver + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|shiver|y}} shiver + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} shivery (comparative shiverier, superlative shiveriest)
  1. Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
    Sense id: en-shivery-en-adj-Q5ANlksw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 88 12
  2. (archaic) Easily broken; brittle; flaky. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-shivery-en-adj-tOxyGU4o

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for shivery meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shiver",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "shiver + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "shiver + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shiverier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiveriest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "shivery (comparative shiverier, superlative shiveriest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The cold night made me all shivery."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Given to shivering; tending to shiver."
      ],
      "id": "en-shivery-en-adj-Q5ANlksw",
      "links": [
        [
          "shiver",
          "shiver"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Easily broken; brittle; flaky."
      ],
      "id": "en-shivery-en-adj-tOxyGU4o",
      "links": [
        [
          "brittle",
          "brittle"
        ],
        [
          "flaky",
          "flaky"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Easily broken; brittle; flaky."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shivery"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -y"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shiver",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "shiver + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "shiver + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shiverier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiveriest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "shivery (comparative shiverier, superlative shiveriest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The cold night made me all shivery."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Given to shivering; tending to shiver."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shiver",
          "shiver"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Easily broken; brittle; flaky."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brittle",
          "brittle"
        ],
        [
          "flaky",
          "flaky"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Easily broken; brittle; flaky."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shivery"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.