NERVOUS meaning: Anxious, uneasy feeling about uncertainty

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word nervous:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

nervous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nervous: Merriam-Webster
nervous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
nervous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
nervous: Collins English Dictionary
nervous: Vocabulary.com
Nervous, nervous: Wordnik
nervous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
nervous: Wiktionary
nervous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
nervous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
nervous: Infoplease Dictionary
nervous: Dictionary.com
nervous: Online Etymology Dictionary
nervous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Nervous (Gavin James song), Nervous (Shawn Mendes song), Nervous (The Ooh Song), Nervous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Nervous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
nervous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
nervous: Rhymezone
nervous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
nervous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
nervous: FreeDictionary.org
nervous: Mnemonic Dictionary
nervous: TheFreeDictionary.com
nervous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

nervous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

nervous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

nervous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
nervous: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

nervous: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See nervousing as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Of sinews and tendons.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Full of sinews.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Having strong or prominent sinews; sinewy, muscular.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Of a piece of writing, literary style etc.: forceful, powerful.
▸ adjective:  Of nerves.
▸ adjective:  Supplied with nerves; innervated.
▸ adjective:  Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.
▸ adjective:  (botany, obsolete) Nervose.
▸ adjective:  Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
▸ adjective:  Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.

Similar:

nervy, high-strung, spooky, jittery, excitable, edgy, jumpy, overstrung, excited, anxious, more...

Opposite:

calm, confident, relaxed, composed, serene

Types:

anxious, worried, concerned, apprehensive, worried about, more...

Phrases:

nervous system, central nervous, nervous breakdown, nervous systems, nervous tissue, more...

Adjectives:

central, functional, very, teenage, non, somatic, enteric, autonomic, visceral, higher, vertebrate

Colors:

gray, pale blue, light gray, pale yellow, beige, more...