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Definitions in simple English

nervous Adjective

— If you are nervous, you are tense and worried about something. I am nervous about my examinations. — Related to the nerves. Nervous system.

nervous

— adjective easily agitated a nervous addict a nervous thoroughbred — adjective (= anxious, unquiet) 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 — adjective (= neural) of or relating to the nervous system nervous disease neural disorder — adjective (= aflutter) excited in anticipation — adjective (= skittish) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

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nervous English » English

anxious uneasy agitated restless tense worried jumpy fidgety jittery fearful apprehensive neural nervy flustered edgy afraid worry timid shy on edge highly strung fretful uptight upset unquiet troubled taut strained skittish scared perturbed neurotic irritable impatient flighty excited disturbed concerned alarmed aflutter worry about wired temperamental spooky sinewy self-conscious restive queasy panicky oversensitive

Topics nervous topics

What do people use nervous to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Afraid

What words describe someone who is easily frightened?

scare easily timid be of a nervous disposition

Examples nervous examples

How do I use nervous in a sentence?

Simple sentences

They're nervous.

The boys were as nervous as the girls.

Calm down! Don't get nervous!

If you'd stop telling me not to be nervous, I probably wouldn't be so nervous.

Tom is obviously very nervous.

What you're doing makes me nervous.

We're very nervous about that.

I don't feel nervous.

We're still nervous.

I wasn't very nervous.

Tom and Mary told me they thought John was nervous.

Tom gets nervous around Mary.

The adults made me nervous.

With so many people around he naturally became a bit nervous.

She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

If people who smoke are deprived of their cigarettes, they get nervous and irritable.

A bare word of criticism makes her nervous.

Bill is nervous about the exam.

I became very nervous when I couldn't locate my passport.

Put that knife down. You're making me nervous.

You are mistaken as to what makes him so nervous.

It was a nervous moment for me.

The new boy had a nervous stammer.

The student became very nervous with the teacher watching him.

The nervous girl is in the habit of chewing the end of her pencil.

I'm always very nervous.

I feel nervous about the result.

I can hardly make a speech without feeling nervous.

Just to watch it made me nervous.

I was nervous at first, but gradually got more relaxed.

I always get nervous just before a match.

When he gets up on stage to sing one of his out-of-tune solos, I get so nervous for him that I get sweaty palms.

He looked calm, but actually he was very nervous.

She stammers when she feels nervous.

It's natural to be nervous when the plane takes off.

Movie subtitles

Hey. I'm so nervous, aren't you?

You know, I still haven't heard anything about Mark, and I'm starting to get a little nervous.

He was pretty nervous.

I-I thought that being pregnant would be this magical thing, but mostly I'm so nervous of doing something wrong, of hurting the baby somehow.

I know, are we excited for her or nervous?

The witch's insanity can be explained as a nervous exhaustion that I will try to exemplify here.

I ask my viewer to understand that in the following I let the same actress portray many different patients of related nervous disorders.

I have personally known a very nervous young woman who often walked in her sleep.

These possessions - these somnambulistic, dazed conditions - are consistent with the nervous diseases we call hysteria.

I'm so nervous. I mean, half a year.

I'm still nervous.

Don't be nervous, Professor!

Don't get nervous.

Tony got nervous.

Do you think she's nervous?

I'm so nervous.

Tell him we're all right, and don't act nervous.

You're just nervous.

Er, just a little nervous, I guess.

I ain't nervous.

So, anyway, my cousin's best friend's older brother's girlfriend's sister is gonna be bringing some by this afternoon, and I know it sounds a little stupid, but I'm kind of nervous to pick them up myself.

None of us even want to play soccer anymore, 'cause we're all too nervous and shit.

Yeah, but you are nervous.

I'm so nervous, aren't you?

The wedding party mustn't see me. I'm too nervous.

What are you so nervous about? Nothing.

You know, I'm still nervous.

To tell the truth, Baron, tonight we're a little bit nervous.

Hey, I'm getting nervous myself.

To me he seems rather nervous.

News and current affairs

Should America be nervous?

LONDON: A hundred years ago, the humorous English magazine Punch carried a cartoon which depicted a young and nervous curate eating breakfast with his bishop.

Fortunately, a wary press corps, powerful governments, and nervous competitors watch its every move, hoping the company to fight its many temptations.

Television is attractive to the architecture of the human nervous system: our brains are built to absorb information and follow rapid changes in the sensory field.

Host regulators are increasingly nervous about banks that operate in their jurisdictions through branches of their corporate parent, without local capital or a local board of directors.

But so long as the anti-trust case remained a threat, IBM was nervous, and began to back away from its business model.

During the course of the 1920's, some of the official holders of pounds grew nervous about Britain's weak foreign trade performance, which suggested that, like today's dollar, the currency was over-valued and would inevitably decline.

Many Europeans, not just Italians, are nervous and unsure of where the continent is going.

Rating agencies and shareholders are nervous when they hear that a stricter regulatory environment is not necessarily a disadvantage.

The Dayton agreement represented not so much the defeat of their plans as the international legitimation of their division of Bosnia, with Bosnian Muslim enclaves left in a nervous see-saw with Tudjman's vicious Hercegovinian minions.

And no matter that there is no prohibition on the purchase of government bonds on the secondary market: the Rubicon has been crossed, and the Germans are nervous.

Big investors, particularly Asian countries' reserve funds, are increasingly nervous.

But the nervous systems of fish are sufficiently similar to those of birds and mammals to suggest that they do.

Hospitals were flooded with patients showing symptoms of damage to the central nervous system.

The current Japanese empress and her daughter-in-law, both from non-aristocratic families, have had nervous breakdowns as a result.

One result is that China feels nervous about the implications of any expansion of the American-Japanese military partnership.

But such approaches are anathema to the US Republican Party, and to its Tea Party faction in particular, and they might unnerve the many Asians who are nervous at China's growing military might.

Firms seem nervous about the future in both areas.

Because nervous investors don't want to be last in line in case of a run, a disorderly rush to the exits is likely when official resources are insufficient.

Beginning in September 1931, the markets became nervous about the US, causing large outflows from American banks - and thus from the dollar.

Indeed, there is already reason enough for them to be nervous: after all, the Fed's epic easing of financial conditions must eventually be followed by exceptionally painful tightening.

In the meantime, both party establishments have reason to be nervous.

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