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Adjective: nervous  nurvus
  1. Easily agitated
    "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
     
  2. Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
    "those nervous moments before takeoff"
    - anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
     
  3. Of or relating to the nervous system
    "nervous disease"
    - neural
     
  4. Excited in anticipation
    - aflutter
     
  5. Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
    - skittish, flighty, spooky, skittery

Sounds like: nervus

See also: excitable, excited, nerve, nervous system, nervously, nervousness, tense, troubled

Encyclopedia: Nervous Nervous, London