trepidatious

adj

Etymology: From, or as if, trepidate + -ious; see trepidation for more.

1. In a state of trepidation; fearful.

   “Hilda looked up from the papers she had been busy with as he entered -- in fact, made a guilty and trepdatious attempt at sweeping them out of sight, which suggested a weakness entirely foreign to her.”

   “He looks a little trepidatious too, and we both laugh awkwardly as he nears me.”