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.
  •agitated (adjective)
  • 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.
  •all (adjective)
  • nervous.
  •amazing (adjective)
  • awesome.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •anxious, fearful (adjective)
  • spooked,
  • nervy,
  • shaky,
  • bothered,
  • annoyed,
  • shrinking,
  • wired,
  • basket case,
  • querulous,
  • fitful,
  • ruffled,
  • edgy,
  • flustered,
  • fussy,
  • unstrung,
  • volatile,
  • irritable,
  • snappish,
  • unrestful,
  • high-strung.
  •awesome (adjective)
  • 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.
  •bashful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •brittle (adjective)
  • short,
  • shortest.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • yellow-bellied,
  • softer,
  • running scared,
  • no guts,
  • having the willies,
  • pigeonhearted,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • lacking courage,
  • Cowhearted,
  • weak-kneed.
  •distressful (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •emotional (adjective)
  • heartwarming,
  • hot-blooded,
  • hotblooded,
  • temperamental.
  •excitable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •excited (adjective)
  • zipped up,
  • juiced up,
  • aflame,
  • steamed up,
  • keyed up.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • phobic,
  • in a dither,
  • rabbity,
  • goose-bumpy.
  •feverish (adjective)
  • hectic,
  • obsessive,
  • most obsessive,
  • more obsessive.
  •fidgety (adjective)
  • nervous wreck,
  • on pins and needles,
  • up the wall.
  •hysterical (adjective)
  • 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 (at ease) (adjective)
  • ill.
  •ill at ease (adjective)
  • out of place,
  • unrelaxed,
  • on tenterhooks.
  •neurotic (adjective)
  • 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.
  •on edge (adjective)
  • most overanxious,
  • nerve racking,
  • most stressful,
  • more overanxious,
  • more stressful,
  • nerveracking,
  • over anxious.
  •overwrought (adjective)
  • 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.
  •restless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •self-conscious (adjective)
  • self-conscious,
  • out of countenance.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • touchy feely,
  • sensory,
  • turned on to,
  • Susceptive,
  • hypersensitive,
  • reactive,
  • sensile,
  • oversensitive,
  • sensatory,
  • emotionable,
  • tuned in,
  • easily affected,
  • supersensitive.
  •shaky (adjective)
  • in firm,
  • all aquiver,
  • jellylike,
  • Fluctuant,
  • aquake,
  • unfirm,
  • tottery,
  • ashake,
  • not set,
  • tremorous,
  • rootless.
  •shy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sleepless (adjective)
  • wideawake,
  • wide awake.
  •stressed out (adjective)
  • more frazzled,
  • more tensed,
  • most tensed,
  • most frazzled.
  •tense (adjective)
  • more fluttery,
  • more shot,
  • most shot,
  • most fluttery.
  •timid (adjective)
  • more bullied,
  • more browbeaten,
  • having cold feet,
  • sub missive,
  • most bullied,
  • most browbeaten,
  • more milquetoast,
  • most milquetoast,
  • most badgered,
  • more badgered.
  •tremulous (adjective)
  • most quavering,
  • more palpitating,
  • most palpitating,
  • more quavering,
  • more aspen,
  • most aspen.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle nerves.
  •uncomfortable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •uneasy (adjective)
  • un easier,
  • more palpitant,
  • more tormented,
  • harassed,
  • un easiest,
  • most tormented,
  • on qui vive,
  • un easy,
  • un-easier,
  • most palpitant,
  • un-easy,
  • more harassed,
  • most harassed,
  • un-easiest.
  •unquiet (adjective)
  • un-quieter,
  • un-quiet,
  • un quietest,
  • un-quietest,
  • un quiet,
  • un quieter.
  •weak (adjective)
  • wimpy,
  • laid back.
  •worried (adjective)
  • worrying,
  • worried stiff.
  •worrisome (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • more vexing,
  • in-convenient,
  • un-nerving,
  • dis-quieting,
  • in convenient,
  • un nerving,
  • most unnerving,
  • more unnerving,
  • dis quieting,
  • up-setting,
  • most vexing.

• adv.

  •on edge (adverb)
  • nailbiting,
  • Nail Biting,
  • nerves edge.

• n.

  •
  • asymptomatic,
  • advanced,
  • congenital,
  • communicable,
  • chronic,
  • catching,
  • autoimmune,
  • clinical,
  • benign,
  • acute.
  •
  • unsettled,
  • scared,
  • startled,
  • feelings,
  • panic-stricken,
  • alarmed,
  • intimidated,
  • (with) your heart in your mouth,
  • petrified.
  •
  • tighten.
  •
  • brain death,
  • brain cell,
  • brain damage,
  • cerebral cortex,
  • cerebellum,
  • central nervous system,
  • brainstem,
  • cerebral,
  • brainwave,
  • brain.
  •nervous (noun)
  • neural.
  •on edge (noun)
  • edge.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • overprotective,
  • half-crazed,
  • fretful,
  • paranoid,
  • cowardly,
  • tensed up,
  • hysterical,
  • wound up,
  • frantic,
  • angst-ridden,
  • wary,
  • afraid,
  • pressured,
  • hesitant,
  • apprehensive,
  • distressed,
  • antsy,
  • broody,
  • desperately.
  •
  • uptight,
  • solicitous,
  • stressed,
  • fidgety,
  • knotted,
  • concerned,
  • frightened,
  • gun-shy,
  • restive.
  •
  • weak.
  •
  • serious.
  •high-strung
  • overstrung.
  •inarticulate
  • tongue-tied.

Paraphrases for Nervous:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    embarrassed, afraid, apprehensive, intense, cautious, restive, itchy, taut, cranky, alarmed, troubled, TRAC.
  • Verb, past tense
    Gave.

• Other Related

  • 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.
  • Interjection
    uncomfortable.
  • Verb, base form
    upset.

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, nerveless, easy, unexcited, comfortable, controlled, restful, pacific, imperturbable, calming, self-controlled, quiet.

• 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.