easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
Used in a Sentence
nervous
How to use nervous in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for nervous.
Editorial note
I bet you're super nervous about meeting me, but please don't be -- I'm just a big dork.
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Definitions5
Parts of speech1
Quick take
easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of nervous gathered in one view.
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"
of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for nervous.
adjective
easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
adjective
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"
adjective
of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
See also: neural
adjective
excited in anticipation
See also: aflutter
adjective
unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Example sentences
I bet you're super nervous about meeting me, but please don't be -- I'm just a big dork.
" and, "Jellyfish have no brain nor central nervous system".
The title made me nervous that this would be run-of-the-mill fanboy garbage.
This request illustrates that slippery slope in a way that makes even the NSA nervous.
That may be a fair tradeoff in the end, but I would be nervous about building a large-scale app that relied on diffing performance for every data-bound element fitting in rAF's 16ms window.
And that kind of unrestrained authority makes us nervous about follow-on initiatives like broadcast flags and indecency campaigns.
A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
We no longer have the time to let skills sink into the autonomous nervous system, as it were, and even if we try, the criminal in Redmond, WA, has a new, incompatible version out by the time we learned the last version...
From wikipedia: "Most jellyfish do not have specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use nervous in a sentence?
I bet you're super nervous about meeting me, but please don't be -- I'm just a big dork.
What does nervous mean?
easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
What part of speech is nervous?
nervous is commonly used as adjective.