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wavery
adjective
uk /ˈweɪ.vər.i/ us /ˈweɪ.vɚ.i/
waveryadjective (OF SOUND/VOICE)
(of a voice, sound, etc.) going up and down in strength or volume:
The young girl asked in a thin, wavery voice if we would help her look for her dog.
He sings in a wavery tenor that sometimes rises into a falsetto.
A voice came from the front room, cautious and wavery, asking, "Is anybody home?"
She hit a wavery top note that made my ears hurt.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Becoming and making less strong
abate
abatement
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
downtoner
dull
ease
emasculation
enervate
enervating
fade
hedge
melt
relieve
tone something down
totter
tottering
turn to jellyidiom
undimmed
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Describing qualities of sound
waveryadjective (OF BEHAVIOUR)
uncertain or lacking confidence :
She gave him an uncertain, wavery little smile.
While one speaker gave a forceful speech, the other was wavery and not very convincing.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Uncertainty
amorphous
be neither fish nor fowlidiom
blurringly
blurry
circumstantial
indeterminacy
indeterminate
indeterminately
insecurely
insecurity
murky
shakily
shakiness
shallowly
slippery
spec
waveringly
wifty
wishy-washy
you never knowidiom
waveryadjective (OF PATTERN)
making a pattern like a wave:
There were panes of old wavery glass in the door.
The rain trickled down the window in wavery verticals.
He could see a wavery shape floating in the water.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Patterns and shapes
amorphous
arabesque
argyle
asymmetrically
asymmetry
fishhook
flecked
formless
formlessly
fretted
saltire
scalloped
scissor
semilunaris
shapeable
vee
wavily
weave
willow pattern
zigzag
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