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nervous

Dictionary definition · nervous

adjective

  1. easily agitated"a nervous addict"
  2. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety"spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"
  3. of or relating to the nervous system"nervous disease"
  4. excited in anticipation
  5. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).