nervous meaning and definition

NERVOUS adjective

Definition of nervous (adjective)

1. easily agitated
   • "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
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"
   • synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
3. of or relating to the nervous system
   • "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
   • synonyms: neural
4. excited in anticipation
   • synonyms: aflutter
5. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
   • synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky