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Pronunciation:
[ nˈɜːvəs], [ nˈɜːvəs], [ n_ˈɜː_v_ə_s]
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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)
- other relevant words (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)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- nervous (noun)
- on edge (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- 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.
- distressful,
- tremulous,
- overmodest,
- scared stiff,
- shy,
- bundle of nerves,
- ill at ease,
- shot to pieces,
- psychoneurotic,
- Butterflies,
- all nerves,
- sleepless,
- on the qui vive,
- fluttery,
- blushful,
- in turmoil,
- in suspense,
- emotional,
- carried away,
- real gone,
- scared to death,
- in awe,
- panicky,
- convulsive,
- wrecker,
- over-anxious,
- Hacked,
- unpeaceful,
- brittle,
- tensed,
- in a fit,
- fearful,
- aspen,
- hyper,
- on edge,
- tense,
- anxious,
- unquiet,
- in a state,
- zero cool,
- unassertive,
- faint-hearted,
- uneager,
- terror-stricken,
- restless,
- all wound up,
- in pain,
- white knuckled,
- uneffusive,
- overwrought,
- strung out,
- worrisome,
- anguished,
- palpitant,
- unassured,
- bashful,
- run scared,
- a bundle of nerves,
- unsocial,
- feverish,
- twitchy,
- neurotic,
- excited,
- tossing and turning,
- unglued,
- stressful,
- over-modest,
- stressed out,
- up set,
- hysteric,
- overanxious,
- timid,
- worried,
- uncomfortable,
- something else,
- in a tizzy.
- 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)adv
• Other relevant words: (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.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)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.
How to use "Nervous" in context?
Nervousness is a feeling of unease and fear, often caused by fear of something specific. Most people become nervous around new situations or when they feel out of their comfort zone. This can make it difficult to think straight and can lead to mistakes. It is important to remember that nervousness is a normal reaction and should not be ignored. There are several ways to help ease the nervousness and make the new situation more manageable. The following are a few tips:
1. Relaxation techniques can be helpful in easing the nervousness. Some simple techniques include deep breathing, mindfulness, and progressive muscle relaxation.
Paraphrases for Nervous:
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Independent
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Adjective
afraid, alarmed, apprehensive, cautious, cranky, embarrassed, intense, itchy, restive, taut, 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
annoyed, edgy, excitable, excited, flustered, frightened, high-strung, insecure, jittery, jumpy, nerve, neural, neurologic, restless, scared, self-conscious, strained, stressful, tight, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset, uptight, twitchy.
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Interjection
uncomfortable.
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Verb, base form
upset.
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Adjective
Homophones for Nervous:
Word of the Day
Eradiated
- Synonyms:
- Radiated.
