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What does nervous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nervous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
  2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
  3. Relating to or affecting the nerves.
  4. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
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She is becoming nervous and anxious but there are still four people in front of her.
The autonomic nervous system is divided into two more systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
Drugs can modulate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system by affecting the synthesis, storage, release or reuptake of noradrenaline.
Those who are sensitive, nervous and anxious, with a reserved nature, are prone.
Without a studio audience to warm things up, Vaughan's attempts to jolly things along fall flat to the sounds of nervous giggles from the crew.
Here we will activate your sympathetic nervous system using a famous model pain stimulus: dunking your hand in ice water.

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