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Meaning of nervous

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  nervous
      adj 1: easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous
             thoroughbred"
      2: 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" [syn: {anxious}, {nervous}, {queasy}, {uneasy},
         {unquiet}]
      3: of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease";
         "neural disorder" [syn: {nervous}, {neural}]
      4: excited in anticipation [syn: {aflutter}, {nervous}]
      5: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn:
         {skittish}, {flighty}, {spooky}, {nervous}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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