Thesaurus:nervous

Thesaurus

nervous

English

Adjective

Sense: apprehensive or anxious; easily agitated or alarmed

Synonyms

• angstful
• apprehensive
• anxious
• careful (obsolete)
• concerned
• distraught
• disturbed
• edgy
• fraught
• freaked out
• hagridden
• high-strung
• jittery
• jumpy
• leery
• nervous
• nervy (UK)
• on edge (idiomatic)
• restless
• skittish
• spookish
• squeamish
• tied in knots (idiomatic)
• twitchy
• uneasy
• unquiet
• verklempt (US, colloquial)
• worried
• worrisome
• worryful

Antonyms

• calm    [⇒ thesaurus]
• intrepid
• unperturbed
• unworried

Hyponyms

• coffeed out
• nervicited
• wired
•   —
• nervous as a cat
• nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• solicitous

Various

• fantod (medical term) (noun)
• nervous nelly (noun)
• nervous hit (noun)
• nail biter (noun)
• have butterflies in one's stomach (verb)
• get cold feet (verb)
• sweat bullets (verb)

See also

• afraid    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cautious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• hesitant
• twitter

Further reading

• “860. fear” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “nervous” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.