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Synonyms for nervous
ˈnɜr vəsner·vous

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Wiktionary3.8 / 5 votes

  1. nervousadjective

    Antonyms:
    calm, relaxed

  2. nervousadjective

    Antonyms:
    relaxed, calm

  3. nervousadjective

    Antonyms:
    relaxed, calm

  4. nervousadjective

    Antonyms:
    relaxed, calm

Princeton's WordNet2.6 / 5 votes

  1. nervousadjective

    easily agitated

    "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"

    Synonyms:
    unquiet, queasy, flighty, uneasy, aflutter, neural, skittish, spooky, anxious

    Antonyms:
    untroubled, relaxed, unexcitable, unexcited

  2. anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquietadjective

    causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

    "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"

    Synonyms:
    vile, flighty, offensive, sickish, aflutter, nauseating, loathsome, sick, anxious, uneasy, sickening, spooky, restless, awkward, queasy, dying(p), unquiet, anxious(p), noisome, ill at ease(p), skittish, neural, nauseated, nauseous

    Antonyms:
    untroubled, relaxed, unexcitable, unexcited

  3. nervous, neuraladjective

    of or relating to the nervous system

    "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"

    Synonyms:
    unquiet, queasy, neuronal, flighty, uneasy, neuronic, aflutter, neural, skittish, spooky, anxious

    Antonyms:
    untroubled, unexcitable, unexcited, relaxed

  4. aflutter, nervousadjective

    excited in anticipation

    Synonyms:
    unquiet, queasy, flighty, uneasy, aflutter, neural, skittish, spooky, anxious

    Antonyms:
    relaxed, unexcitable, untroubled, unexcited

  5. skittish, flighty, spooky, nervousadjective

    unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

    Synonyms:
    flyaway, queasy, aflutter, flighty, uneasy, unquiet, neural, head-in-the-clouds, skittish, spooky, scatterbrained, anxious

    Antonyms:
    untroubled, relaxed, unexcitable, unexcited

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tense

    Submitted by anonymous on September 30, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. nervousadjective

    Synonyms:
    of the nerves

  2. nervousadjective

    Synonyms:
    sinewy, strong, vigorous, robust, forcible, powerful

  3. nervousadjective

    Synonyms:
    timid, timorous, easily agitated

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.5 / 2 votes

  1. nervousadjective

    Synonyms:
    excitable, sensitive, timorous

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Nervous":

    Simon Coffey, DJ Nervous

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How to use nervous in a sentence?

  1. Amy Bushatz:

    I would be lying if I didn't say it (made) me a little nervous, i don't think you can receive what appears to be a personal threat from ISIS without being nervous.

  2. Bernie Sanders:

    You can tell when a campaign gets nervous -- like the Clinton campaign -- and I think they're getting a little nervous, what do you think? when candidates and campaigns get nervous, they start throwing out a bunch of stuff.

  3. Shana Alexander:

    The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

  4. Walt Whitman:

    I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  5. Bertrand Russell:

    One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.


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