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- DictionaryNerv·ous/ˈnərvəs/
adjective
- 1. easily agitated or alarmed; tending to be anxious; highly strung: "a sensitive, nervous person"
- 2. relating to or affecting the nerves: "a nervous disorder"
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Nervous is more often used to describe how you feel before you do something very important such as an exam or an interview, or something unpleasant or difficult. Nervous can describe someone's personality: a very nervous man is often or usually nervous; a worried man is worried on a particular occasion or about a particular thing.
Nervous definition: highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive. See examples of NERVOUS used in a sentence.
When you're nervous or frightened, it helps to breathe slowly and deeply. She looked calm but was feeling nervous inside. She was very nervous, but she remained outwardly calm. I was so nervous I felt quite sick. He was nervous on his first day at school.
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If someone is nervous, they are frightened or worried about something that is happening or might happen, and show this in their behavior. The party has become deeply nervous about its prospects of winning the next election.
1. very excitable or sensitive; highly strung. 2. ( often foll by of) apprehensive or worried: I'm nervous of traffic. 3. of, relating to, or containing nerves; neural: nervous tissue. 4. (Pathology) affecting the nerves or nervous tissue: a nervous disease. 5. archaic active, vigorous, or forceful. ˈnervously adv. ˈnervousness n.
Of physical appearance or parts of the body: manifesting, or betraying, the symptoms of a person's nervousness or agitation; trembling, agitated, restless. 1844. There were dark faces with fierce mustaches and glittering eyes thrust towards the table, nervous hands moving in rapid gesticulations.
