Defenition of the word nervous

• Defenition of the word nervous

  • Easily agitated or distressed.
  • Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety.
  • excited in anticipation
  • causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
  • being in a tense state; easily upset
  • of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
  • unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
  • easily agitated; "quick nervous movements"
  • easily agitated
  • causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
  • of or relating to the nervous system

Synonyms for the word nervous

• • aflutter
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • edgy
  • high-strung
  • in suspense
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • nervy
  • neural
  • overstrung
  • panicky
  • restive
  • restless
  • sinewy
  • skittish
  • spirited
  • spooky
  • strong
  • tense
  • timid
  • uneasy
  • unquiet
  • uptight
  • vigorous
  • worried

Similar words in the nervous

• • excitable
  • excited
  • nervous
  • nervously
  • nervousness
  • nervousness's
  • tense
  • troubled

Antonyms for the word nervous

• • calm
  • imperturbable
  • self-controlled
  • self-possessed
  • steady
  • tranquil

Idioms for the word nervous

• • nervous breakdown

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