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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



... a certain importance. "Do you remember," he asked, "when you were married, how did you feel about it? Were you kind of nervous, or anything ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington
... a prostrating, nervous headache. She attempted to rise, but fell helplessly back upon the pillow. Then she reached forth her hand and rang the bell that hung at ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... liked talking to Laura; but he shrank inexpressibly from approaching Nina, the woman with unquiet eyes and nervous gestures, and a walk that suggested the sweep of a winged thing to its end. A glance at Nina told him that wherever she was she could look ...
— The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair
... my darling! You are in one of those moments of exaltation and nervous excitement in which a woman sometimes commits ...
— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant
... transformed the dusty roads into deep mud. But in the excitement that preceded an assault of such magnitude the condition of the weather could not dampen the feverish ardor of the troops. There was so much to be done that there was no time to consider anything but the work in hand. A nervous exhilaration prevailed among the men, who looked eagerly and yet fearfully forward to the hour for the great offensive from which such great things ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)


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