What is another word for nervous?
506 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ nˈɜːvəs], [ nˈɜːvəs], [ n_ˈɜː_v_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for nervous:- afraid (adjective)
- agitated (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- amazing (adjective)
- anxious (adjective)
- anxious, fearful (adjective)
- awesome (adjective)
- bashful (adjective)
- brittle (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- distressful (adjective)
- emotional (adjective)
- excitable (adjective)
- excited (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- feverish (adjective)
- fidgety (adjective)
- hysterical (adjective)
- ill (at ease) (adjective)
- ill at ease (adjective)
- neurotic (adjective)
- on edge (adjective)
- overwrought (adjective)
- restless (adjective)
- self-conscious (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- shaky (adjective)
- shy (adjective)
- sleepless (adjective)
- stressed out (adjective)
- tense (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- tremulous (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- uncomfortable (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- unquiet (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- worried (adjective)
- worrisome (adjective)
- on edge (adverb)
- nervous (noun)
- on edge (noun)
- other synonyms
- high-strung
- inarticulate
Synonyms for Nervous:
adj.
•afraid (adjective)- panicstricken,
- more daunted,
- dis tressed,
- most rattled,
- more aroused,
- most aroused,
- more nervous,
- more spooked,
- dis-mayed,
- dis-tressed,
- most disheartened,
- co wed,
- up-set,
- terrorstricken,
- most dismayed,
- more disheartened,
- more terrorstricken,
- most trembling,
- more trembling,
- most faint-hearted,
- most terror-stricken,
- most daunted,
- terror stricken,
- dis heartened,
- dis mayed,
- most spooked,
- most faint hearted,
- most terrorstricken,
- more terror-stricken,
- faint hearted,
- panic stricken,
- have cold feet,
- most cowed,
- more dismayed,
- scared death,
- more rattled,
- more faint-hearted,
- dis-heartened,
- co-wed,
- more faint hearted,
- more cowed,
- most terror stricken,
- more terror stricken.
- shivering,
- quivering,
- Churned,
- palpitating,
- writhing,
- shuddering,
- upset,
- jumpy,
- perturbed,
- disturbed,
- shaken,
- trembling,
- jerky,
- quavering,
- disquieted,
- distraught,
- wobbling,
- Jarred,
- twitching,
- troubled,
- erratic,
- fluttered,
- agitated,
- quaking,
- jittery,
- shaking,
- spastic.
- most hyper,
- more careful,
- dis-quieted,
- more hacked,
- most dreading,
- most butterflies,
- more dreading,
- more choked,
- in tizzy,
- more butterflies,
- more bugged,
- more disquieted,
- more unglued,
- un glued,
- taut,
- sweating bullets,
- dis quieted,
- in state,
- most clutched,
- wreckest,
- most choked,
- shot pieces,
- up tight,
- most unglued,
- up-tight,
- most bugged,
- most disquieted,
- more hyper,
- worried sick,
- more clutched,
- un-glued,
- most hacked.
- spooked,
- nervy,
- shaky,
- bothered,
- annoyed,
- shrinking,
- wired,
- basket case,
- querulous,
- fitful,
- ruffled,
- edgy,
- flustered,
- fussy,
- unstrung,
- volatile,
- irritable,
- snappish,
- unrestful,
- high-strung.
- over whelming,
- mindblowing,
- awe inspiring,
- grandest,
- impressive,
- more daunting,
- most stupefying,
- over-whelming,
- striking,
- fearsome,
- most horrifying,
- mind blowing,
- most daunting,
- more horrifying,
- more stupefying,
- aweinspiring.
- selfeffacing,
- more verecund,
- un assertive,
- re served,
- de-mure,
- more unassertive,
- more recoiling,
- re-tiring,
- re-coiling,
- most recoiling,
- re tiring,
- re coiling,
- more overmodest,
- re-served,
- self effacing,
- most overmodest,
- most verecund,
- most unassertive,
- Verecund,
- de mure,
- most blushful,
- more blushful,
- un-assertive,
- over modest.
- yellow-bellied,
- softer,
- running scared,
- no guts,
- having the willies,
- pigeonhearted,
- Chicken-hearted,
- lacking courage,
- Cowhearted,
- weak-kneed.
- short-tempered,
- quick-tempered,
- over-zealous,
- impulsive,
- Hot-headed,
- stormy,
- Agitable,
- hot-tempered,
- mercurial,
- crusty,
- rash,
- touchy,
- fiery,
- passionate,
- combustible,
- cranky,
- Alarmable,
- hottempered,
- galvanic,
- volcanic,
- explosive,
- short fused,
- ardent,
- overzealous,
- fragile,
- reckless,
- tempestuous.
- un-controllable,
- more seething,
- most fuming,
- unnerved,
- irrepressible,
- most maddened,
- un nerved,
- un-restrained,
- more unnerved,
- in fit,
- most convulsive,
- in censed,
- in-censed,
- more convulsive,
- most unnerved,
- un controllable,
- more maddened,
- most seething,
- un-nerved,
- more fuming.
- ill.
- un-stable,
- un healthy,
- un-stabler,
- dis-oriented,
- un stablest,
- psycho-neurotic,
- un-healthy,
- un stabler,
- most manic,
- un stable,
- un-healthiest,
- dis-ordered,
- most psychoneurotic,
- un-stablest,
- psycho neurotic,
- most hysteric,
- un healthier,
- un healthiest,
- dis oriented,
- more psychoneurotic,
- bundle nerves,
- more hysteric,
- dis ordered.
- most overanxious,
- nerve racking,
- most stressful,
- more overanxious,
- more stressful,
- nerveracking,
- over anxious.
- worked-up,
- hot under collar,
- strung-out,
- fired-up,
- hot-and-bothered,
- all shook up,
- over-excited,
- keyed-up,
- wound-up,
- freaked-out,
- over-wrought.
- un-steadier,
- most unpeaceful,
- most fidgeting,
- tossing turning,
- un-peaceful,
- more bustling,
- in-constant,
- un peaceful,
- un steady,
- more fidgeting,
- un-steadiest,
- un steadier,
- un steadiest,
- more unpeaceful,
- most bustling.
- touchy feely,
- sensory,
- turned on to,
- Susceptive,
- hypersensitive,
- reactive,
- sensile,
- oversensitive,
- sensatory,
- emotionable,
- tuned in,
- easily affected,
- supersensitive.
- in firm,
- all aquiver,
- jellylike,
- Fluctuant,
- aquake,
- unfirm,
- tottery,
- ashake,
- not set,
- tremorous,
- rootless.
- un-effusive,
- dis trustful,
- un effusive,
- un-assured,
- most unassured,
- more uneager,
- un-social,
- most unsocial,
- dis inclined,
- in disposed,
- dis-inclined,
- more introvert,
- un eager,
- more uneffusive,
- most introvert,
- dis-trustful,
- more unassured,
- more unsocial,
- recessive,
- un-willing,
- un-responsive,
- introvert,
- most uneager,
- un assured,
- un social,
- un willing,
- un-eager,
- in-disposed,
- most uneffusive,
- un responsive.
- more bullied,
- more browbeaten,
- having cold feet,
- sub missive,
- most bullied,
- most browbeaten,
- more milquetoast,
- most milquetoast,
- most badgered,
- more badgered.
- un comfortable,
- more wracked,
- more vexed,
- most anguished,
- most wracked,
- more anguished,
- pained,
- most chafed,
- most vexed,
- more chafed,
- un-comfortable,
- most galled,
- most suffering,
- more galled,
- more suffering.
adv.
•on edge (adverb)n.
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- asymptomatic,
- advanced,
- congenital,
- communicable,
- chronic,
- catching,
- autoimmune,
- clinical,
- benign,
- acute.
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- unsettled,
- scared,
- startled,
- feelings,
- panic-stricken,
- alarmed,
- intimidated,
- (with) your heart in your mouth,
- petrified.
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- tighten.
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- brain death,
- brain cell,
- brain damage,
- cerebral cortex,
- cerebellum,
- central nervous system,
- brainstem,
- cerebral,
- brainwave,
- brain.
- edge.
Other synonyms:
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- overprotective,
- half-crazed,
- fretful,
- paranoid,
- cowardly,
- tensed up,
- hysterical,
- wound up,
- frantic,
- angst-ridden,
- wary,
- afraid,
- pressured,
- hesitant,
- apprehensive,
- distressed,
- antsy,
- broody,
- desperately.
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- uptight,
- solicitous,
- stressed,
- fidgety,
- knotted,
- concerned,
- frightened,
- gun-shy,
- restive.
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- weak.
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- serious.
Paraphrases for Nervous:
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Independent
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Adjective
embarrassed, afraid, apprehensive, intense, cautious, restive, itchy, taut, cranky, alarmed, troubled, TRAC.
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Verb, past tense
Gave.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
neural, jumpy, nerve, jittery, restless, flustered, high-strung, edgy, excited, excitable, neurologic, strained, uptight, scared, frightened, insecure, uncomfortable, uneasy, twitchy, self-conscious, tight, annoyed, stressful, upset.
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Interjection
uncomfortable.
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Verb, base form
upset.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Nervous:
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adj.
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anxious, fearful
unnervous, collected, composed, confident, unworried, sufficient, sure, extroverted, fearless, happy, bold, uncaring, unafraid, firm, unwavering, cool, laid-back, easy-going, brave, certain, calm.
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Other antonyms:
untroubled, nerveless, easy, unexcited, comfortable, controlled, restful, pacific, imperturbable, calming, self-controlled, quiet.
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anxious, fearful
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Other antonyms:
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n.
decompress, lax, loosen up, make relaxed, relax, slow down, unbend, unlax, unstrain, unwind.
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n.