Definition of 'nervous'

Adjective

1. easily agitated; "quick nervous movements"
2. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
      Synonyms: anxious queasy uneasy unquiet
3. of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
      Synonyms: neural
4. excited in anticipation
      Synonyms: aflutter
5. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
      Synonyms: skittish flighty spooky

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