NERVOUS
Dictionary entry overview: What does nervous mean?
• NERVOUS (adjective)
The adjective NERVOUS has 5 senses:
1. easily agitated
2. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
3. of or relating to the nervous system
4. excited in anticipation
5. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Familiarity information: NERVOUS used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• NERVOUS (adjective)
Meaning:
Easily agitated
Context example:
quick nervous movements
Similar:
tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)
Meaning:
Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Synonyms:
unquiet; uneasy; nervous; anxious; queasy
Context examples:
spent an anxious night waiting for the test results / cast anxious glances behind her / those nervous moments before takeoff / an unquiet mind
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Meaning:
Of or relating to the nervous system
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
neural; nervous
Context examples:
nervous disease / neural disorder
Pertainym:
nervous system (the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells)
Meaning:
Excited in anticipation
Synonyms:
aflutter; nervous
Similar:
excited (in an aroused state)
Meaning:
Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Synonyms:
skittish; spooky; flighty; nervous
Similar:
excitable (easily excited)
