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   Nerv·ous

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   adjective

   • 1. easily agitated or alarmed; tending to be anxious; highly strung: "a sensitive, nervous person" Similar highly strungeasily frightenedeasily agitatedanxiousedgytenseexcitablejumpyskittishbrittleneurotichystericaltimidtimorousmousyshyfearfulfrightenedfrightened of one's own shadowapprehensivescarednervyinformal:trepidatiousOpposite calmrelaxedeasygoing
   • ▪ anxious or apprehensive: "staying in the house on her own made her nervous" Similar anxiousworriedapprehensiveon edgeedgytensestrainedstressedagitatedin a state of nervesin a state of agitationuneasyrestlessworked upkeyed upoverwroughtwrought upstrung outjumpyon tenterhookswith one's stomach in knotsfidgetyfearfulfrightenedscaredwith one's heart in one's mouthlike a cat on a hot tin roofquakingtremblingshakingshaking in one's shoesshakyon pins and needlesin a cold sweatfeveredfebrileinformal:with butterflies in one's stomachjitterytwitchyin a stateuptightwiredin a stewall of a ditherall of a doodahin a sweatin a flapin a tizz/tizzyall of a latherhet upin a twitterstrung upstressywindyhaving kittenslike a cat on hot bricksspookysquirrellyin a twittoeyvulgar slang:shitting bricksbricking oneselfdated:overstrungOpposite coolcalmrelaxedlaid-back
   • ▪ (of a feeling or reaction) resulting from anxiety or anticipation: "nervous energy"
   • 2. relating to or affecting the nerves: "a nervous disorder" Similar neurologicalneuralneuro-

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the senses ‘containing nerves’ and ‘relating to the nerves’): from Latin nervosus ‘sinewy, vigorous’, from nervus ‘sinew’ (see nerve). nervous (sense 1) dates from the mid 18th century.

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   • Get a quick, free translation! NERVOUS definition: 1. worried and anxious: 2. relating to the nerves: 3. worried and anxious: . Learn more.

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   What does nervus mean?

   • Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French nervus, nervous, borrowed from Latin nervōsus "full of tendons, sinewy, tough, vigorous (of a person or literary style)," from nervus "sinew, muscle, nerve entry 1 " + -ōsus -ous

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   What is a nervous feeling?

   • Then a nervous, anxious feeling that takes away my appetite, and prevents me from eating my dinner. When we came in he looked indisposed and nervous, and there happened to be a good many artists there. Nervous definition: highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive. See examples of NERVOUS used in a sentence.

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   • nervoso, ansioso, ansioso/-osa… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! NERVOUS definition: 1. worried and anxious: 2. relating to the nerves: 3. worried and anxious: .

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