adjective
easily agitated
Examples
- a nervous addict
- a nervous thoroughbred
adjective
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
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Examples
- spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
- cast anxious glances behind her
- those nervous moments before takeoff
- an unquiet mind
adjective
of or relating to the nervous system
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- nervous disease
- neural disorder
adjective
excited in anticipation
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adjective
unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
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