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How to pronounce nervous in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms flighty, skittish, spooky
Derivation nervousness
Type Words
Synonyms neural
Derivation nerve


nervous disease.
Type Words
Synonyms aflutter
Derivation nervousness
Type Words
Synonyms anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
Derivation nervousness


those nervous moments before takeoff.
Type Words
Derivation nervousness


a nervous addict.
a nervous thoroughbred.

Examples of nervous

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I was a little nervous, because there's a girl from FPC who gave me competition.
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Everybody was happy, I was nervous, scared, because I knew something was coming.
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The boy felt nervous as he walked up the stairs with a basketball under his arm.
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The nervous man at the mike was a Tiger Woods many people had never seen before.
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It's the week before finals, and Jamie Wilkinson's students are getting nervous.
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A flatbed pickup truck with five more armed guards leads the nervous procession.
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Is it certain that they do, or are some nervous Americans just imagining things?
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Robinson, she said, was at a pay phone, was nervous, and said he was in trouble.
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It is maiming them, destroying their nervous systems and causing permanent harm.
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More examples
  • Easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
  • Anxious: 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"
  • Of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
  • Aflutter: excited in anticipation
  • Skittish: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
  • (nervously) in an anxiously nervous manner; "we watched the stock market nervously"
  • "Nervous" is a rockabilly/doo-wop song first recorded by Gene Summers and His Rebels in 1958 and later covered by Robert Gordon and Link Wray, among others. It was composed by Mary Tarver in 1957, published by Ted Music, BMI and issued on Jan/Jane Records. ...
  • (Nervousness) Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components.Seligman, M.E.P., Walker, E.F. & Rosenhan, D.L.). Abnormal psychology, (4th ed.) New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ...
  • A peripheral nerve, or simply nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of peripheral axons (the long, slender projections of neurons). A nerve provides a common pathway for the electrochemical nerve impulses that are transmitted along each of the axons. ...