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nervous

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nervous in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. excited in anticipation
    aflutter  nervous 
  2. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
    "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
    anxious  nervous  queasy  uneasy  unquiet 
  3. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
    skittish  flighty  spooky  nervous 
  4. of or relating to the nervous system
    "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
    nervous  neural 
  5. easily agitated
    "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
    nervous 
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