nervous
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
easily agitated
a nervous addict
Related & opposite
- nervousness derivation
- tense similar to
Sense 2 adjective
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
Related & opposite
- queasiness derivation
- disquiet derivation
- nervousness derivation
- nerves derivation
- troubled similar to
Sense 3 adjective
of or relating to the nervous system
nervous disease
Related & opposite
- nerve derivation
- nervous system pertains to
Sense 4 adjective
excited in anticipation
Related & opposite
- nervousness derivation
- excited similar to
Sense 5 adjective
unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Related & opposite
- nervousness derivation
- skittishness derivation
- excitable similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | nervousness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | tense |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | queasiness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disquiet |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nervousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nerves |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | troubled |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | nerve |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | nervous system |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | nervousness |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | excited |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | nervousness |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | skittishness |
| 5 | similar to | Related & opposite | excitable |