Nervous Synonyms
All of a doodah , anxious, agitated, and all of a dither are synonyms for nervous; calm, relaxed, and easy-going are antonyms of nervous. On this page, you will find 84 another word for nervous.
84 Another Word for Nervous
1. tense
- Anxious
- Apprehensive
- Brittle
- Easily agitated
- Easily frightened
- Edgy
- Excitable
- Fearful
- Frightened of one's own shadow
- Frightened
- Highly strung
- Hysterical
- Jumpy
- Mousy
- Nervy
- Neurotic
- Scared
- Shy
- Skittish
- Tense
- Timid
- Timorous
- Trepidatious
2. worried
- Agitated
- All of a dither
- All of a doodah
- All of a lather
- Anxious
- Apprehensive
- Edgy
- Fearful
- Febrile
- Fevered
- Fidgety
- Frightened
- Having kittens
- Het up
- In a cold sweat
- In a flap
- In a state of agitation
- In a state of nerves
- In a state
- In a stew
- In a sweat
- In a tizz/tizzy
- In a twit
- In a twitter
- Jittery
- Jumpy
- Keyed up
- Like a cat on a hot tin roof
- Like a cat on hot bricks
- On edge
- On pins and needles
- On tenterhooks
- Overstrung
- Overwrought
- Quaking
- Restless
- Scared
- Shaking in one's shoes
- Shaking
- Shaky
- Spooky
- Squirrelly
- Strained
- Stressed
- Stressy
- Strung out
- Strung up
- Tense
- Toey
- Trembling
- Twitchy
- Uneasy
- Uptight
- Windy
- Wired
- With one's stomach in knots
- Worked up
- Worried
- Wrought up
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Nervous Sentences
She felt nervous before presenting today.
His nervous hands shook with fear.
The nervous student fidgeted during class.
A nervous glance revealed her anxiety.
