different between pleasurable vs shudder

English

Etymology

From pleasure +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?????b?l/

Adjective

pleasurable (comparative more pleasurable, superlative most pleasurable)

1. That gives pleasure

   The massage was a pleasurable experience.

   • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

     Planting of orchards is very […] pleasurable.

   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:

     At Rome every Pleasurable Female pays a Julio per Week to the Church […]

Synonyms

• (giving pleasure): nice, pleasant, pleasing

Derived terms

Related terms

• pleasure
• please

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English *shudderen, *schuderen (suggested by Middle English shuddering, schudering (“shaking, quivering, shuddering”)), from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skewd?-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Homophone: shutter (accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)
• Hyphenation: shud?der

Noun

shudder (plural shudders)

1. A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
2. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

Synonyms

• (shivering tremor): jiggle, quake, rumble, quiver
• (frisson): shiver (cold), quiver, tingle, thrill

Translations

Verb

shudder (third-person singular simple present shudders, present participle shuddering, simple past and past participle shuddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

Synonyms

• (shake nervously): palpitate, shiver, shake, quake
• (vibrate jerkily): flutter, jiggle, shake, wiggle

Translations

See also

• judder

References