Definition for Nervous:

• Pertaining to or affected by the nerves.

Synonyms for Nervous:

• adj.

  •agitated (adjective)
  • Churned,
  • shivering,
  • jumpy,
  • shuddering,
  • feverish,
  • trembling,
  • shaken,
  • fluttered,
  • distraught,
  • quaking,
  • wobbling,
  • disquieted,
  • jerky,
  • upset,
  • skittish,
  • twitching,
  • unquiet,
  • uneasy,
  • quavering,
  • palpitating,
  • quivering,
  • twitchy,
  • spastic,
  • restless,
  • shaking,
  • perturbed,
  • Jarred,
  • agitated,
  • writhing,
  • jittery,
  • troubled,
  • erratic,
  • convulsive,
  • disturbed.
  •anxious, fearful (adjective)
  • worried,
  • fidgety,
  • irritable,
  • hesitant,
  • solicitous,
  • distressed,
  • fussy,
  • shaky,
  • apprehensive,
  • neurotic,
  • taut,
  • agitated,
  • fitful,
  • edgy,
  • weak,
  • shy,
  • upset,
  • bothered,
  • jittery,
  • high-strung,
  • shrinking,
  • tense,
  • afraid,
  • excitable,
  • wired,
  • volatile,
  • restive,
  • skittish,
  • ruffled,
  • nervy,
  • uneasy,
  • timorous,
  • disturbed,
  • hysterical,
  • troubled,
  • unrestful,
  • uptight,
  • sensitive,
  • on edge,
  • spooked,
  • flustered,
  • annoyed,
  • concerned,
  • twitchy,
  • querulous,
  • overwrought,
  • jumpy,
  • timid,
  • snappish,
  • unstrung.
  •brittle (adjective)
  • irritable.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • timid,
  • weak-kneed,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • weak.
  •emotional (adjective)
  • hot-blooded,
  • temperamental.
  •excitable (adjective)
  • volatile,
  • hot-tempered,
  • emotional,
  • edgy,
  • excitable,
  • fiery,
  • fragile,
  • crusty,
  • volcanic,
  • reckless,
  • short-tempered,
  • passionate,
  • touchy,
  • brittle,
  • mercurial,
  • Agitable,
  • quick-tempered,
  • combustible,
  • ardent,
  • sensitive,
  • cranky,
  • stormy,
  • neurotic,
  • high-strung,
  • explosive,
  • tempestuous,
  • rash,
  • irritable,
  • impulsive.
  •excited (adjective)
  • aflame,
  • wired,
  • bothered.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • rabbity,
  • afraid,
  • in a dither,
  • cowardly,
  • aflutter,
  • phobic.
  •fidgety (adjective)
  • unrestful,
  • fidgety,
  • up the wall.
  •ill at ease (adjective)
  • on tenterhooks.
  •impressionable (adjective)
  • sensitive.
  •overwrought (adjective)
  • overstrung,
  • all shook up.
  •self-conscious (adjective)
  • self-conscious.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • oversensitive,
  • hypersensitive,
  • Susceptive,
  • supersensitive.
  •shaky (adjective)
  • shaky.
  •unstrung (adjective)
  • unstrung.
  •worried (adjective)
  • worrying.

• n.

  •
  • solicitous,
  • panic-stricken,
  • concerned,
  • frightened,
  • petrified,
  • fearful,
  • alarmed,
  • scared,
  • unsettled,
  • intimidated,
  • distressed.
  •
  • fidgety,
  • restive,
  • on edge,
  • uptight.
  •nervous (noun)
  • uneasy,
  • spooky,
  • anxious,
  • neural,
  • tense,
  • excited,
  • aflutter,
  • troubled,
  • unquiet,
  • skittish,
  • excitable.
  •timid (noun)
  • worried,
  • afraid,
  • apprehensive,
  • timid,
  • shy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • neurotic,
  • half-crazed,
  • fretful,
  • overprotective,
  • cowardly,
  • antsy,
  • hysterical,
  • uncomfortable,
  • frantic,
  • pressured,
  • panicky,
  • afraid,
  • wary,
  • hesitant,
  • apprehensive,
  • fearful,
  • wound up,
  • broody,
  • distressed.
  •
  • uptight,
  • solicitous,
  • stressed,
  • fidgety,
  • overwrought,
  • concerned,
  • frightened,
  • worried,
  • restive.
  •
  • unsettled,
  • weak.
  •
  • serious.
  •high-strung
  • overstrung.
  •inarticulate
  • tongue-tied.
  •unnerved
  • unstrung.
  •Other relevant words:
  • shaken up,
  • infest,
  • rabbity,
  • crabbed,
  • pretext,
  • flaccid,
  • hurt,
  • dainty,
  • flighty,
  • terror-stricken,
  • delirious,
  • fiddle-footed,
  • horror-struck,
  • run amok,
  • intimidated,
  • provoke,
  • high,
  • sensational,
  • shamefaced,
  • hot and bothered,
  • tentative,
  • diffident,
  • blushing,
  • introverted,
  • mad,
  • forcible,
  • agonized,
  • aroused,
  • design,
  • core,
  • incisive,
  • sickening,
  • yellow,
  • maladjusted,
  • scared,
  • impatient,
  • huffy,
  • excite,
  • worrisome,
  • confused,
  • unnerved,
  • temperamental,
  • peevish,
  • difficult,
  • panicky,
  • hyperactive,
  • jitter,
  • organization,
  • disbelieving,
  • appalled,
  • disturb,
  • disordered,
  • overanxious,
  • driving,
  • nerval,
  • relaxed,
  • ruffled,
  • up the wall,
  • fluttery,
  • hyperexcitable,
  • oversensitive,
  • thin-skinned,
  • hyper,
  • powerless,
  • withdrawing,
  • mysterious,
  • worried,
  • distressed,
  • skittishly,
  • neural,
  • hysterical,
  • fretful,
  • gutsy,
  • distracted,
  • empathetic,
  • all shook up,
  • corrosive,
  • doubting,
  • noisome,
  • allergic,
  • vigorous,
  • withdrawn,
  • retiring,
  • frenzied,
  • bothered,
  • panic-struck,
  • stupefied,
  • humble,
  • shy,
  • skittery,
  • uptight,
  • supersensitive,
  • hesitant,
  • half-crazed,
  • eager,
  • in a dither,
  • unconfident,
  • tenseness,
  • fearsome,
  • pester,
  • hectic,
  • leery,
  • fidgety,
  • wavering,
  • wired,
  • suffering,
  • spooky,
  • nervy,
  • trenchant,
  • spirited,
  • sceptical,
  • hotheaded,
  • sinking,
  • Hyperkinetic,
  • querulous,
  • mousey,
  • anaphylactic,
  • edge,
  • head-in-the-clouds,
  • psychoneurotic,
  • obsessive,
  • chary,
  • Roused,
  • mettlesome,
  • implication,
  • neurological,
  • uneasily,
  • neuronal,
  • agonizing,
  • spooked,
  • flappable,
  • pressure,
  • horrified,
  • distract,
  • suspicious,
  • asthenic,
  • anxiously,
  • feeble,
  • Perturbable,
  • worrying,
  • message,
  • foreboding,
  • network,
  • weakly,
  • aflutter,
  • telling,
  • alarmed,
  • terror-struck,
  • phobic,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • discombobulated,
  • twittery,
  • overwrought,
  • high-spirited,
  • meek,
  • fraught,
  • gist,
  • imperative,
  • mousy,
  • trigger-happy,
  • Distrusting,
  • adynamic,
  • disconcerted,
  • in a stew,
  • insane,
  • squeamish,
  • unsettled,
  • cutting,
  • fastidious,
  • queasy,
  • restive,
  • excitedly,
  • Startlish,
  • distrustful,
  • eerie,
  • on edge,
  • serious,
  • worked up,
  • at wits' end,
  • gingerly,
  • self-effacing,
  • intension,
  • Fearing,
  • tense,
  • unwilling,
  • chicken-livered,
  • awkward,
  • testy,
  • worry,
  • circumspect,
  • eruptive,
  • tongue-tied,
  • tensely,
  • cautious,
  • stunned,
  • striking,
  • overprotective,
  • method,
  • panic-stricken,
  • trepidant,
  • abnormal,
  • a bundle of nerves,
  • Debile,
  • untrusting,
  • suspenseful,
  • perturb,
  • strain,
  • goosey,
  • powerful,
  • horror-stricken,
  • frantic,
  • reserved,
  • unrestful,
  • empathic,
  • unstable,
  • spirit,
  • bother,
  • bashful,
  • High-mettled,
  • slashing,
  • sick,
  • apprehensive,
  • sheepish,
  • agog,
  • athirst,
  • uncertain,
  • timorously,
  • molest,
  • irrational,
  • tender,
  • frightened,
  • coy,
  • Flurried,
  • scary,
  • craven,
  • sleepless,
  • edgily,
  • weak-kneed,
  • fussy,
  • system,
  • aflame,
  • plan,
  • aggravate,
  • nervosa,
  • displease,
  • taut,
  • sapless,
  • mordant,
  • timorous,
  • irk,
  • hot-blooded,
  • terrified,
  • overstrung,
  • annoyed,
  • fearful,
  • aghast,
  • hesitating,
  • tremulous,
  • prickly,
  • fainthearted,
  • stimulated,
  • deviant,
  • hypersensitive,
  • stressed,
  • affected,
  • wound up,
  • anguished,
  • exasperate,
  • overrefined,
  • vital,
  • tetchy,
  • heart,
  • Susceptive,
  • restlessly,
  • flustered,
  • impetuous,
  • neurotic,
  • acid,
  • guarded,
  • abashed,
  • waspish,
  • self-conscious,
  • unpeaceful,
  • sympathetic,
  • distressful,
  • Passible,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • stirred,
  • mistrustful,
  • in a sweat,
  • berserk,
  • strong,
  • unstrung,
  • moved,
  • itchy,
  • antsy,
  • distressing,
  • crazy,
  • goosy,
  • Agitable,
  • highly strung,
  • doubtful,
  • faltering,
  • in a tizzy,
  • shaky,
  • neurotically,
  • cowardly,
  • annoy,
  • discomposed,
  • Sinewed,
  • watchful,
  • irritate,
  • center,
  • vex,
  • careful,
  • gutless,
  • troublous,
  • penetrating,
  • fitful,
  • wild,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • stressful,
  • import,
  • toey,
  • in a frenzy,
  • chicken,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • dubious,
  • in suspense,
  • in a state,
  • snappish,
  • beside oneself,
  • nauseated,
  • disquieting,
  • nerves on edge,
  • ill at ease,
  • ticklish,
  • pretense,
  • sinewy,
  • Punchy,
  • uncomfortable,
  • ill,
  • effective,
  • rattled,
  • overmodest,
  • intense,
  • pusillanimous,
  • timidly,
  • coward,
  • impressive,
  • demonstrative,
  • irascible,
  • excited,
  • nerve-racking,
  • insecure,
  • white-livered,
  • tactful,
  • poignant,
  • refined,
  • running amok,
  • anxious,
  • zealous,
  • weak,
  • strung up,
  • biting,
  • modest,
  • Strengthless,
  • harass,
  • eery,
  • misgiving,
  • meaning,
  • overexcited,
  • faint-hearted,
  • broody,
  • tautness,
  • disturbing,
  • mercurial,
  • inflammable,
  • discomfited,
  • impotent,
  • all nerves,
  • shivery,
  • delicate,
  • pressured,
  • unbelieving,
  • forceful,
  • order,
  • bore,
  • responsive,
  • tension,
  • afraid,
  • cynical,
  • arrangement,
  • piercing,
  • embarrassed,
  • solicitous,
  • timid,
  • shrinking,
  • critical,
  • petrified,
  • unsure,
  • strained,
  • lily-livered,
  • rile,
  • unsteady,
  • chafing,
  • aquiver,
  • canny,
  • concerned,
  • frenetic,
  • wary,
  • hyperesthetic,
  • nervously,
  • madden,
  • turbulent,
  • stirred up,
  • worriedly,
  • all wound up,
  • affectation.

Antonyms for Nervous:

• adj.

  • 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.
  • Other antonyms:
    untroubled, comfortable, sure, nerveless, controlled, easy, quiet, calming, pacific, unexcited, self-controlled, restful, imperturbable.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    decompress, lax, loosen up, make relaxed, relax, slow down, unbend, unlax, unstrain, unwind.

Homophones for Nervous:

• Norvasc, Nervus Coccygeus, nervus, nerve gas, nerves, neurohypophysis, nimravus.