Nervous
Antonyms of NERVOUS
- pacific, unwavering, unwind, unexcited, decompress, relax, uncaring, easy-going, unworried, lax, unafraid, imperturbable, composed, unbend, sufficient, certain, fearless, unlax, firm, slow down, bold, unstrain, untroubled, extroverted, brave, happy, sure, nerveless, comfortable, restful, unnervous, loosen up, laid-back, make relaxed, quiet, collected, cool, self-controlled, controlled, easy, calm, calming, confident.
Synonyms of NERVOUS
- broody, waspish, vex, responsive, in a state, withdrawn, arrangement, palpitating, anxious, intense, excited, tensed up, mordant, worked up, easily affected, spastic, Hacked, testy, shaky, gun-shy, tension, brainstem, skittish, quavering, cerebellum, twitchy, huffy, sickening, all nerves, acute, angst-ridden, unwilling, fiddle-footed, unsocial, fluttery, watchful, abnormal, hotheaded, unsettled, wimpy, nerves on edge, jumpy, tactful, over-anxious, abashed, out of countenance, stressful, catching, carried away, emotionable, coy, softer, terror-stricken, up the wall, relaxed, unassured, on edge, clinical, advanced, Alarmable, zealous, uneffusive, weak, brittle, perturbed, crusty, uptight, slashing, retiring, mousy, self-conscious, wound up, irrational, sensitive, reactive, moved, faltering, strong, a-tremble, unpeaceful, hottempered, disturbed, tossing and turning, benign, cranky, tempestuous, a battery, having the willies, careful, alarmed, bore, insecure, worked-up, touchy feely, intimidated, discombobulated, blushful, frenzied, anaphylactic, lily-livered, cerebral cortex, hot under collar, intension, irascible, fainthearted, panic-stricken, forcible, imperative, infest, frantic, athirst, jittery, stimulated, telling, nervosa, overrefined, shot to pieces, unnerved, circumspect, disordered, wired, goosey, impetuous, gist, Hot-headed, brain death, erratic, worry, phobic, fretful, central nervous system, displease, unassertive, on the qui vive, asymptomatic, in a stew, Cowhearted, brain damage, discomfited, agonizing, distressed, Perturbable, driving, troubled, anguished, juiced up, stupefied, querulous, on pins and needles, impulsive, pigeonhearted, wary, overstrung, psychoneurotic, Butterflies, anxioused up, affectation, horrified, skittishly, no guts, worrying, network, in a sweat, something else, nerve-racking, Jarred, on tenterhooks, overanxious, horror-stricken, order, vital, steamed up, disturbing, dubious, rash, powerful, yellow-bellied, awesome, tetchy, fidgety, irk, agitated, eery, ill, peevish, quick-tempered, pretext, tongue-tied, temperamental, uneasily, craven, feeble, hysterical, agonized, blushing, frenetic, tuned in, High-mettled, afraid, sympathetic, guarded, sapless, sinking, timidly, tensed, irritable, provoke, in pain, modest, oversensitive, out of place, unglued, goose-bumpy, deviant, feverish, wound-up, weakly, ticklish, powerless, not set, tottery, humble, gingerly, tighten, frightened, doubtful, molest, strain, flappable, timorous, tentative, chary, foreboding, in firm, tense, high-spirited, affected, worrisome, thin-skinned, writhing, in suspense, cerebral, empathic, incisive, wobbling, hesitating, unrelaxed, rabbity, overprotective, high, real gone, apprehensive, annoyed, jellylike, inflammable, prickly, hectic, fraught, bother, aspen, brainwave, run scared, introverted, hypersensitive, upset, forceful, trenchant, nervous wreck, emotional, heartwarming, distracted, mettlesome, Agitable, harass, excitable, fragile, stressed, supersensitive, shuddering, hotblooded, scared stiff, pester, white knuckled, short, poignant, pressure, queasy, up set, confused, in a dither, Punchy, scared, in fear, coward, sensile, itchy, uneager, sick, discomposed, misgiving, in a pucker, short fused, panicky, nervous, insane, hyperesthetic, impotent, terror-struck, demonstrative, disconcerted, mercurial, suspicious, head-in-the-clouds, galvanic, diffident, worriedly, keyed up, flustered, touchy, turbulent, neural, all aquiver, distressful, serious, overmodest, startled, running amok, doubting, hyperactive, overwrought, bashful, anxiously, yellow, restless, disturb, Distrusting, half-crazed, squeamish, awkward, excitedly, freaked-out, obsessive, worried, adynamic, Fearing, gutsy, critical, center, white-livered, timid, eerie, nauseated, distract, terrified, edgy, Chicken-hearted, in a tizzy, restive, Startlish, tautness, sensatory, skittery, biting, self-effacing, restlessly, sleepless, penetrating, nervously, petrified, in awe, madden, reserved, chicken-livered, tremorous, Flurried, nail-biting, asthenic, distraught, refined, cautious, aquiver, aggravate, communicable, nervy, lacking courage, maladjusted, fiery, edgily, in a frenzy, on a high, basket case, convulsive, fussy, piercing, hysteric, overzealous, spirited, rattled, hot-and-bothered, suffering, tender, bothered, meek, (with) your heart in your mouth, weak-kneed, tenseness, sinewy, flighty, aquake, over-modest, hot and bothered, explosive, fearful, aflame, stirred, desperately, stirred up, shaken up, distressing, unfirm, aroused, trembling, all shook up, flaccid, neurological, twitching, horror-struck, strung out, chafing, unquiet, rootless, wideawake, ruffled, antsy, crazy, Fluctuant, shivering, worried stiff, brain cell, cynical, over-wrought, Roused, in a fit, wavering, faint-hearted, unstable, passionate, wild, withdrawing, scared to death, eager, strung-out, heart, short-tempered, congenital, fastidious, volcanic, shortest, unconfident, timorously, stunned, beside oneself, mistrustful, exasperate, vigorous, concerned, pretense, chronic, brain, jitter, excite, knotted, at wits' end, shivery, chicken, scary, turned on to, laid back, delicate, fitful, spirit, neurotically, sheepish, in a flap, jerky, strung up, Passible, toey, fired-up, hurt, Susceptive, hot-blooded, unsteady, all a-twitter, distrustful, feelings, berserk, run amok, unsure, zero cool, acid, solicitous, uncomfortable, gutless, trigger-happy, pusillanimous, canny, crabbed, empathetic, tremulous, uncertain, cutting, perturb, autoimmune, zipped up, eruptive, unbelieving, dainty, nerve-wracking, taut, impatient, bundle of nerves, implication, shaking, method, annoy, unstrung, all-overish, difficult, disbelieving, panic-struck, organization, troublous, Churned, mad, embarrassed, weakest, meaning, palpitant, noisome, paranoid, goosy, twittery, Sinewed, allergic, nerval, strained, suspenseful, design, impressive, import, shaken, fluttered, system, hesitant, shy, mousey, trepidant, neurotic, cowardly, fearsome, overexcited, aghast, over-zealous, ashake, spooky, effective, ardent, volatile, corrosive, appalled, mysterious, core, hot-tempered, stressed out, Debile, tensely, uneasy, in turmoil, stormy, delirious, striking, leery, disquieting, hyperexcitable, characteristic, plan, sensory, pressured, shamefaced, wrecker, high-strung, combustible, reckless, aflutter, over-excited, all wound up, agog, keyed-up, rile, quaking, message, unrestful, highly strung, shrinking, Hyperkinetic, sceptical, hyper, neuronal, snappish, sensational, a bundle of nerves, disquieted, running scared, ill at ease, edge, Strengthless, irritate, spooked, quivering, untrusting.
Examples of usage:
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" But you're on the ground now, Lem," said Columbine, with a nervous laugh. "The Mysterious Rider" by Zane Grey
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Mentally she complained of being nervous and easily awakened at night; consciousness was clear; she was well oriented; no hallucinations or delusions could be elicited. "Studies in Forensic Psychiatry" by Bernard Glueck
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Don't stand there and watch me, please; you make me nervous. "Brother and Sister" by Josephine Lawrence
