nervous meaning
EN
[ˈnɜː.vəs] [ˈnɝː.vəs] 
US WNervous
- Nervous may refer to:
- The nervous system, the part of an animal's body that coordinates its voluntary and involuntary actions and transmits signals between different parts of its body
- Nervous tissue, the main component of the two parts of the nervous system
- "Nervous" (song), a rockabilly/doo-wop song first recorded by Gene Summers and His Rebels in 1958
- Nervous Records, a UK record label
- Nervous Records (US), a US record label
- AdjectiveCOMmore nervousSUPmost nervousSUF-ous
- Easily agitated or alarmed; on edge or edgy.
- Being in a crowd of strangers makes me nervous.
- Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
- Relating to or affecting the nerves.
- the central nervous system
- (obscure) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
- Fortescutus illustratus, or a commentary on that nervous treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ ... [book title]
- Easily agitated or alarmed; on edge or edgy.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The tendency of the nervous horse to loll his tongue can often be cured by the use of the "tongue-lolling bit."
- His tirelessness in helping the poor won him an award and a nervous breakdown from exhaustion.
- Most of the nervous system that forms during larvogenesis in C. teleta persists into the juvenile stage.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Afterward, when company profits had ventured a bit too far southward, the CFO began to get nervous.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of nervous in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Adjectives
- en nervously
- en nervous hit
- en nervousness
- en nervous-Nelly
- en nervous nelly
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "nervous" is an adjective.