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Meaning of nervous in English
Pronunciation
/ˈnərvəs/
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Classifying Adjective
nervous
Definitions
1.
easily agitated
Examples
« quick nervous movements »
Synonyms
tense
2.
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Examples
« spent an anxious night waiting for the test results »
« cast anxious glances behind her »
« those nervous moments before takeoff »
« an unquiet mind »
Synonyms
troubled
3.
excited in anticipation
Synonyms
excited
4.
unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Synonyms
excitable
Qualitative Adjective
nervous
Etymology
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
Definitions
1.
of or relating to the nervous system
Examples
« nervous disease »
« neural disorder »