'Nervous' definitions:
Definition of 'nervous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
adjective
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" [syn: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet]
adjective
Of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder" [syn: nervous, neural]
adjective
Excited in anticipation [syn: aflutter, nervous]
adjective
Definition of 'Nervous'
From: GCIDE
- Nervous \Nerv"ous\ (n[~e]rv"[u^]s), a. [L. nervosus sinewy, vigorous: cf. F. nerveux. See Nerve.]
- 1. Possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous. "Nervous arms." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed. [1913 Webster]
- Poor, weak, nervous creatures. --Cheyne. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Sensitive; excitable; timid. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Apprehensive; as, a child nervous about his mother's reaction to his bad report card. [PJC]
- Our aristocratic class does not firmly protest against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics, because it is nervous about the land. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- Nervous fever (Med.), a low form of fever characterized by great disturbance of the nervous system, as evinced by delirium, or stupor, disordered sensibility, etc.
- Nervous system (Anat.), the specialized coordinating apparatus which endows animals with sensation and volition. In vertebrates it is often divided into three systems: the central, brain and spinal cord; the peripheral, cranial and spinal nerves; and the sympathetic. See Brain, Nerve, Spinal cord, under Spinal, and Sympathetic system, under Sympathetic, and Illust. in Appendix.
- Nervous temperament, a condition of body characterized by a general predominance of mental manifestations. --Mayne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nervous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acid,
- agitable,
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- biting,
- bothered,
- concerned,
- corrosive,
- cowardly,
- critical,
- cutting,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- diffident,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- driving,
- edgy,
- effective,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- goosy,
- gutsy,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- in a dither,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a tizzy,
- in fear,
- incisive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- misgiving,
- mordant,
- mousy,
- nerval,
- nerves on edge,
- nervy,
- neural,
- neurological,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- overtender,
- panicky,
- passible,
- penetrating,
- perturbable,
- perturbed,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- powerful,
- prickly,
- punchy,
- querulous,
- rabbity,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- scared,
- scary,
- sensational,
- sensitive,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slashing,
- snappish,
- solicitous,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- striking,
- strong,
- strung out,
- supersensitive,
- suspenseful,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- telling,
- tender,
- tense,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trenchant,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- worked up,
- worried,
- wrought up,
- zealous
Words containing 'Nervous'
- Nervously,
- Nervousness,
- Nervous deafness,
- Nervous fever,
- Nervous system,
- Nervous temperament,
- nervous breakdown,
- nervous disorder,
- nervous exhaustion,
- nervous fluid,
- nervous impulse,
- nervous principle,
- nervous prostration,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervous tissue,
- autonomic nervous system,
- central nervous system,
- parasympathetic nervous system,
- peripheral nervous system,
- sympathetic nervous system