nervous
easily agitated
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,878 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,562 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- easily agitated a nervous addicta nervous thoroughbred
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety also: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet spent an anxious night waiting for the test resultscast anxious glances behind her
- of or relating to the nervous system also: neural nervous diseaseneural disorder
- excited in anticipation also: aflutter
- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) also: skittish, flighty, spooky
nervous in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A nervous shudder shook M. Costeclar’s lean frame.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Augustus lit a cigarette and smoked in a nervous way, and kept opening and shutting the window.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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The prisoner narrated all this in nervous haste, though he had already given every particular, time and again.
Lahoma · J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis · Chapter 1
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I could not say that I was nervous, but there was certainly, to me, a something strange in the atmosphere.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Granny was nervous and irritable because she knew that she would be forced to join the rest at the table that night.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1