Thesaurus:nervous
English
Adjective
Sense: apprehensive or anxious; easily agitated or alarmed
Synonyms
- angstful
- apprehensive
- anxious
- careful (obsolete)
- concerned
- distraught
- disturbed
- edgy
- fraught
- freaked out
- hagridden
- high-strung
- jittery
- jumpy
- leery
- nervous
- nervy (UK)
- on edge (idiomatic)
- perturbable
- restless
- skittish
- spookish
- squeamish
- tied in knots (idiomatic)
- twitchy
- uneasy
- unquiet
- verklempt (US, colloquial)
- worried
- worrisome
- worryful
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Various
- fantod (medical term) (noun)
- nervous nelly (noun)
- nervous hit (noun)
- nail biter (noun)
- have butterflies in one's stomach (verb)
- get cold feet (verb)
- sweat bullets (verb)