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# tremulous

«tremulous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Tremulous describes a voice or hand that shakes a little…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Tremulous describes a voice or hand that shakes a little, from fear, cold or old age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremulous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a tremulous voice in a tale shows that a person is frightened or very old

### examples

- Her tremulous voice showed she was scared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremulous/#x1)
- The old man gave a tremulous smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremulous/#x2)
- He spoke in a tremulous whisper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremulous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tremulous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremulous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.