variants:
or less commonly trepidacious
Definition of trepidatious
: feeling trepidation : apprehensive
Within a couple of minutes of coming "on stage" she had an immediate rapport with the studio audience, discussing with candor what sort of questions they might have, and had the whole session in hand and us trepidatious panelists at ease.— Malcolm S. Forbes
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The first known use of trepidatious was in 1904
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