Nervous

Adjective

 * 1) Easily agitated or alarmed. Being on edge or edgy.
 * 2) Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant.
 * 3) Relating to or affecting the nerves.

Thesaurus
trigger-happy, troubled, troublous, turbulent, twittery, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful, upset, uptight, vigorous, vital, volatile, volcanic, waspish, worked up, worried, wrought up, agitable, agitated, all nerves, all-overish, allergic, anaphylactic, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, bashful, biting, bothered, concerned, corrosive, cowardly, critical, cutting, delicate, difficult, diffident, discomposed, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, driving, edgy, effective, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, fearful, fearing, fearsome, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, forceful, forcible, foreboding, fretful, frightened, goosey, goosy, gutsy, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, imperative, impressive, in a dither, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a tizzy, in fear, incisive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, itchy, jittery, jumpy, mettlesome, misgiving, mordant, mousy, nerval, nerves on edge, nervy, neural, neurological, on edge, on tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overstrung, overtender, panicky, passible, penetrating, perturbable, perturbed, piercing, poignant, powerful, prickly, punchy, querulous, rabbity, refined, responsive, restless, ruffled, scared, scary, sensational, sensitive, shaken, shaken up, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, sinewed, sinewy, skittery, skittish, slashing, snappish, solicitous, spooky, startlish, stirred up, strained, striking, strong, strung out, supersensitive, suspenseful, sympathetic, tactful, telling, tender, tense, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, timid, timorous, touchy, trembling, tremulous, trenchant, trepidant,

Etymology
From nervosus:

Antonyms

 * calm, relaxed

Derived terms

 * nervously
 * nervousness
 * nervous breakdown
 * nervous energy
 * autonomic nervous system
 * central nervous system
 * enteric nervous system
 * parasympathetic nervous system
 * peripheral nervous system
 * sympathetic nervous system

Related terms

 * nervosity

Translations

 * Danish: nervøs, nervesvag
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: нервный


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 紧张 (jǐnzhāng)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nervøs
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kärsitu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek: αγχωμένος
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 神経の (しんけいの, shinkei no)
 * Korean: 흥분된 (heungbundoen)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: нервный
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: nerve-
 * Romanian:


 * Russian: нервный
 * Spanish: