nervous
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nervous/ˈnɜːvəs/
▶adjective
- 1 easily agitated or alarmed.
■ anxious; apprehensive.
■ resulting from anxiety or anticipation.
- 2 relating to or affecting the nerves.
– derivatives
nervously adverb,
nervousness noun.
nervously adverb,
nervousness noun.
'nervous' also found in these Oxford entries:
abdabs
- acetylcholine
- agitate
- amp
- analeptic
- animal
- ANS
- anxiety
- astrocyte
- autonomic
- brain
- BSE
- butterfly
- caffeine
- central nervous system
- Chagas' disease
- churn
- CNS
- depressant
- edge
- edgy
- febrile
- fever
- flinch
- flurried
- ganglion
- giggle
- glia
- glioma
- heebie-jeebies
- herpes
- highly strung
- hippocampus
- integration
- jiggy
- key
- kitten
- lather
- methylphenidate
- microglia
- naloxone
- naltrexone
- nerveless
- nervous breakdown
- nervous system
- nervous wreck
- nervy
- neural
- neural network
