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Nervous   /nˈərvəs/   Listen
Nervous

adjective
1.
Easily agitated.  "A nervous thoroughbred"
2.
Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety.  Synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet.  "Cast anxious glances behind her" , "Those nervous moments before takeoff" , "An unquiet mind"
3.
Of or relating to the nervous system.  Synonym: neural.  "Neural disorder"
4.
Excited in anticipation.  Synonym: aflutter.
5.
Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses).  Synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky.



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"Nervous" Quotes from Famous Books



... up there hurrying from one finger-exercise to another as if she could not get enough of that exquisite amusement, and Wili is seated at her side in a similar condition of nervous industry, waiting for ...
— Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country • Johanna Spyri
... trifle nervous when he went to the front to shoot, he did his best to control it. Taking as careful aim as possible, ...
— The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch - The Cowboys' Double Round-Up • Edward Stratemeyer
... was seated down on the deck against one of the guns, and Mesty, putting on the look of a demon, extended above him his, long nervous arm, with the sharp knife clutched, as if ready every instant to strike it into his heart. The Spanish captain felt his situation anything but pleasant. He was then interrogated as to the number of men in the ship, officers, etc, ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat
... because they have an idea of the location of what they want and blindly strike out for it with a certain nervous desire to cover the intermediate ground as quickly ...
— Sam Lambert and the New Way Store - A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks • Unknown
... flashed to and fro, and then fixed on Mulvey and his Mexican companion. That glance singled out these two, and the sudden rush of nervous men proved it. Mulvey and the sheep-herder were left alone in the center ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey


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