| ADJECTIVE | all | nervous | easily agitated |
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| all | nervous, anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet | causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | |
| pert | nervous, neural | of or relating to the nervous system | |
| all | nervous, aflutter | excited in anticipation | |
| all | nervous, skittish, flighty, spooky | unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) |
| Sounds | ner'vahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | easily agitated. | |
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| Broader | tense | In or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
| Spanish | nervioso | |
| Catalan | nerviós | |
| Nouns | nervousness | a sensitive or highly strung temperament |
| Adverbs | nervously | in an anxiously nervous manner |
| Meaning | Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety. | |
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| Example | "those nervous moments before takeoff" | |
| Synonyms | anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet | |
| Broader | troubled | Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need |
| Spanish | ansioso, inquieto, nervioso | |
| Catalan | ansiós | |
| Nouns | nervousness | the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters |
| nervousness | an uneasy psychological state | |
| Meaning | Of or relating to the nervous system. | |
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| Example | "nervous disease" | |
| Synonym | neural | |
| Spanish | nervioso, neural | |
| Catalan | nerviós, neural, neuronal | |
| Nouns | nerve | any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body |
| nervous system | the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells | |
| Meaning | excited in anticipation. | |
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| Synonym | aflutter | |
| Broader | excited | In an aroused state |
| Spanish | agitado, nervioso | |
| Nouns | nervousness | the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters |
| Meaning | unpredictably excitable (especially of horses). | |
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| Synonyms | skittish, flighty, spooky | |
| Broader | excitable | easily excited |
| Spanish | asustadizo, nervioso | |
| Nouns | nervousness | a sensitive or highly strung temperament |
| Adverbs | nervously | with nervous excitement |
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