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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to the nerves or nervous system: nervous tissue.
  2. adj. Stemming from or affecting the nerves or nervous system: a nervous disorder.
  3. adj. Easily agitated or distressed; high-strung or jumpy.
  4. adj. Marked by or having a feeling of unease or apprehension: nervous moments before takeoff.
  5. adj. Vigorous in style or feeling; spirited: "the nervous thrust of a modern creation” ( Henry A. Kissinger).
  6. adj. Archaic Strong; sinewy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Full of nerves.
  2. Sinewy; strong; vigorous; well-strung.
  3. Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by force or strength in sentiment or style: as, a nervous historian.
  4. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in or affecting some part of the nervous system: as, a nervous disease; a nervous impulse; a nervous action.
  5. Having the nerves affected; having weak ordiseased nerves; easily agitated or excited; weak; timid.
  6. In botany, same as nerved.
  7. Synonyms Forcible.
  8. Timorous, excitable, high-strung.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Easily agitated or alarmed; on edge or edgy.
  2. adj. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
  3. adj. Relating to or affecting the nerves.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.
  2. adj. Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited.
  3. adj. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves
  4. adj. Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.
  5. adj. Sensitive; excitable; timid.
  6. adj. Apprehensive.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. easily agitated
  2. adj. excited in anticipation
  3. adj. of or relating to the nervous system
  4. adj. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
  5. adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

Etymologies

  1. From Latin nervōsus (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, sinewy, containing nerves, from Latin nervōsus, sinewy, from nervus, sinew; see nerve. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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