Dictionary Definition
nervous adj
1 easily agitated; "quick nervous
movements"
2 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" [syn: anxious, uneasy, unquiet]
3 of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous
disease"; "neural disorder" [syn: neural]
4 excited in anticipation [syn: aflutter]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From nervosusAdjective
- Easily agitated or alarmed.
- Apprehensive or anxious.
- Relating to or affecting the nerves.
Synonyms
- see
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
anxious
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 紧张 (jǐnzhāng)
- Czech: nervózní
- Danish: nervøs
- Dutch: nerveus
- Finnish: hermostunut
- French: nerveux
- German: nervös
- Hungarian: ideges
- Italian: nervoso
- Japanese: 神経の (しんけいの, shinkei no)
- Korean: 흥분된 (heungbundoen)
- Portuguese: nervoso
- Romanian: emoţionat, nerăbdător
- Russian: нервный
- Spanish: nervioso
- Swedish: nervös
relating to the nerves
- Czech: nervový
- Danish: nerve-
- Romanian: nervos
- Russian: нервный
- Spanish: nervioso
References
Extensive Definition
Nervous may refer to:
- Nervousness
- The nervous system
- Nervous Records, a UK record label
- Nervous Records (US), a US record label
- Nervous (song), a rockabilly/doo-wop song first recorded by Gene Summers and His Rebels in 1958
nervous in French: Nerveux
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acid,
agitable, agitated, all nerves,
all-overish, allergic,
anaphylactic,
anxious, anxioused up,
apprehensive,
bashful, biting, bothered, concerned, corrosive, cowardly, critical, cutting, delicate, difficult, diffident, discomposed, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, driving, edgy, effective, emotional, emotionally
unstable, empathetic,
empathic, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, fearful, fearing, fearsome, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, forceful, forcible, foreboding, fretful, frightened, goosey, goosy, gutsy, high-mettled,
high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, imperative, impressive, in a dither, in a
pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a tizzy, in fear, incisive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, itchy, jittery, jumpy, mettlesome, misgiving, mordant, mousy, nerval, nerves on edge, nervy, neural, neurological, on edge, on
tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive,
overrefined,
oversensible,
oversensitive,
overstrung, overtender, panicky, passible, penetrating, perturbable, perturbed, piercing, poignant, powerful, prickly, punchy, querulous, rabbity, refined, responsive, restless, ruffled, scared, scary, sensational, sensitive, shaken, shaken up, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, sinewed, sinewy, skittery, skittish, slashing, snappish, solicitous, spooky, startlish, stirred up,
strained, striking, strong, strung out, supersensitive, suspenseful, sympathetic, tactful, telling, tender, tense, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, timid, timorous, touchy, trembling, tremulous, trenchant, trepidant, trigger-happy,
troubled, troublous, turbulent, twittery, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful, upset, uptight, vigorous, vital, volatile, volcanic, waspish, worked up, worried, wrought up, zealous