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What is another word for
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Showing or feeling insecurity or uncertainty
Ill-tempered, or being a bad mood
In a state of suspense or apprehension
Having or showing an excited feeling that something is about to happen, especially something good
Adjective
▲
Showing or feeling insecurity or uncertainty
anxious
edgy
nervous
tense
uneasy
troubled
worried
antsy
jumpy
jittery
nervy
perturbed
upset
uptight
insecure
unquiet
queasy
queazy
restless
agitated
hinky
aflutter
fidgety
dithery
goosey
atwitter
unsettled
restive
hung up
twitchy
ill at ease
keyed up
wired
apprehensive
unstable
excitable
neurotic
unnerved
highly strung
hysterical
sensitive
brittle
skittish
beside oneself
excited
feeling anxious
high-strung
hyper
in suspense
nail-biting
nerve-racking
nervous wreck
overanxious
stressful
wound up
het up
bundle of nerves
in a tizzy
nerves on edge
on tenterhooks
disturbed
on pins and needles
uncomfortable
disquieted
bothered
fretful
hesitant
uncertain
embarrassed
self-conscious
discomfited
fearful
stressy
discomposed
impatient
unsure
awkward
shy
bashful
strained
retiring
unrelaxed
fazed
suspicious
doubtful
flustered
irresolute
wavering
shaken
concerned
alarmed
shaky
dismayed
irritable
turbulent
fidgeting
strung out
active
tossing and turning
unpeaceful
twittering
tentative
indecisive
dithering
vacillating
easily upset
volatile
faltering
inhibited
unnatural
out of place
gauche
gun-shy
swithering
shrinking
blushing
worked up
like a cat on a hot tin roof
like a cat on hot bricks
champing at the bit
disconcerted
ruffled
unrestful
rattled
distressed
shook up
confused
unbalanced
thrown
disorderly
withdrawn
lacking social skills
timid
discomforted
reserved
tongue-tied
introverted
unconfident
discombobulated
distrustful
spasmodic
unsteady
itchy
fitful
all of a dither
in a flap
overwrought
afraid
vexed
tormented
anguished
harassed
fraught
like a fish out of water
on the qui vive
all nerves
wrung
in turmoil
wakeful
insomniac
attentive
awake
unsleeping
watchful
without sleep
insomnolent
wide-awake
vigilant
sleepless
wide awake
alert
more ❯
“Everybody was
on edge
as if they expected something even more momentous to take place.”
Adjective
▲
Ill-tempered, or being a bad mood
testy
touchy
irritable
irascible
crabbed
crotchety
peevish
tetchy
snappy
querulous
prickly
impatient
bad-tempered
captious
ill-tempered
short-tempered
quick-tempered
temperamental
hot-tempered
irritated
cross
petulant
grumpy
fractious
cantankerous
grouchy
crabby
cranky
surly
ratty
fretful
pettish
disagreeable
sulky
choleric
snappish
huffy
waspish
moody
sullen
chippy
splenetic
bitter
crusty
narky
dyspeptic
curmudgeonly
sour
churlish
bilious
eggy
soreheaded
whingy
peckish
complaining
liverish
scratchy
miffy
snaky
ill-natured
ill-humoured
UK
whingeing
ill-humored
US
peppery
edgy
sorehead
perverse
miserable
morose
out of sorts
fiery
acrimonious
snarky
snippy
stuffy
snippety
out of temper
in a bad mood
raspy
like a bear with a sore head
cynical
difficult
tart
shirty
stroppy
harsh
critical
tough
trying
acrid
discontented
whining
spiteful
fussy
carping
waxy
waspy
grousing
fault-finding
mardy
out of humor
angry
glum
unsociable
resentful
shrewish
brusque
misanthropic
ornery
obstinate
pertinacious
uptight
grumbling
gloomy
mean
whiny
dissatisfied
bearish
thin-skinned
dour
nasty-tempered
acid
awkward
mumpish
growling
fretting
childish
out-of-sorts
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
ugly
saturnine
blunt
cussed
chuffy
embittered
arsey
grudging
bad
sharp-tongued
unfriendly
jaundiced
ungenerous
uncongenial
unhappy
hostile
wicked
murmuring
plaintive
grumbly
huffy irascible
salty
censorious
moaning
negative
crying
deploring
hard to please
scrappy
lamenting
bemoaning
whimpering
wailing
tense
curt
huffish
disgruntled
argumentative
gruff
volatile
sensitive
feisty
bristly
ireful
contentious
hotheaded
truculent
pouty
oversensitive
quarrelsome
hypercritical
uncooperative
exasperated
displeased
snarling
contrary
crybaby
ungracious
annoyed
iracund
pouting
brooding
iracundulous
disputatious
cross-grained
having got out of bed on the wrong side
out of humour
griping
hot under the collar
on a short fuse
malicious
venomous
vinegary
short
foul-tempered
as cross as two sticks
sharp
hasty
malignant
hot-blooded
vindictive
nasty
in a mood
sore
passionate
filthy
having got out of bed the wrong side
obstreperous
short-fused
easily offended
scowling
glowering
bloody-minded
frowning
indignant
fierce
aggressive
mopey
piqued
unsmiling
dark
unpleasant
uncivil
moping
humourless
UK
humorless
US
threatening
belligerent
rude
vicious
cheerless
aggrieved
discourteous
abrupt
impolite
ferocious
inhospitable
bellicose
tooshie
unhelpful
menacing
stern
excitable
hot-headed
malevolent
antagonistic
boorish
forbidding
rancorous
vexed
grim
pugnacious
severe
vitriolic
irate
unresponsive
uncommunicative
recalcitrant
aggravated
upset
louring
irked
unmannerly
wrathful
somber
US
snarly
sombre
UK
furious
inflammable
impetuous
malign
peeved
put out
sourpussed
faultfinding
ill-mannered
disobliging
sulking
intimidating
wild
joyless
enraged
contumacious
hate-filled
disapproving
easily upset
foreboding
confrontational
combative
terse
bolshie
agitated
galled
militant
refractory
defiant
violent
steely
warlike
serious
ticklish
impulsive
agonistic
mopish
froward
worked up
choked
discordant
no-nonsense
taciturn
flinty
assaultive
poisonous
unaccommodating
stony
offended
solemn
atrabilious
envenomed
unreasonable
unruly
catty
unkind
mean-spirited
vehement
agitable
owly
dismal
wounded
hateful
sarcastic
fed up
evil-intentioned
in a huff
cold
disrespectful
scornful
destructive
rough
bluff
rotten
contemptible
narked
virulent
inimical
loudmouthed
adversarial
apt to fly off the handle
lugubrious
uncontrollable
offhand
unindulgent
vinegarish
bellyaching
beefing
tempersome
abusive
unceremonious
sober
pessimistic
spunky
acerbic
acute
forceful
restless
restive
indomitable
uncompliant
indocile
zowerswopped
scathing
savage
hard-nosed
offensive
aloof
emotional
off
offish
Eeyorish
cruel
perversely irritable
mighty
antipathetic
unlikable
ominous
withdrawn
depressed
quick to anger
hurtful
pernicious
boisterous
crude
having short fuse
hot under collar
eristic
frightening
dejected
broody
sharp-tempered
bad-humored
like a bear
got up on wrong side of bed
blue
neurotic
kittle
mopy
skittish
fuming
with a long face
down in the mouth
having a fit of the sulks
in a funk
in the sulks
in a strop
litigious
livid
apoplectic
negativistic
begrudging
disputative
mad
riled
cast-iron
boot-faced
implacable
ungentle
mortified
unappeasable
stark
psyched up
angerful
frenzied
ranting
in a temper
raving
convulsed
hurt
steamed
factious
warring
gladiatorial
steamed up
crook
vex
ropeable
passive-aggressive
uninviting
hoha
wroth
hard
miffed
unapproachable
formidable
battling
dissentious
brawly
fighting
controversial
polemical
polemic
jumpy
aerated
easily frightened
easily agitated
high-strung
austere
lowering
grave
bickering
ructious
tempestuous
arguesome
wrangling
willful
wilful
with chip on shoulder
hard done by
grudge-bearing
sardonic
irreconcilable
with a chip on your shoulder
caustic
ill-disposed
stubborn
impassioned
turbulent
war
brawling
obdurate
ticked off
teed off
headstrong
not best pleased
hopping mad
bent out of shape
overwrought
distraught
worried
uncomfortable
ready for a fight
have chip on shoulder
anxious
stressed
fidgety
in a paddy
up in arms
on the warpath
foaming at the mouth
hacked off
in a bate
in a lather
fit to be tied
intractable
distressed
mulish
wreck
rattled
overstrung
twitchy
nervous
pigheaded
mean-looking
wrought up
ill at ease
het up
balky
provoked
disobedient
outraged
evil
wayward
troublesome
maleficent
baleful
obstructive
tiresome
annoying
vexatious
contrarious
capricious
thrawn
malefic
renitent
pervicacious
black
self-willed
bull-headed
disparaging
deprecating
overcritical
nagging
pedantic
quibbling
niggling
pettifogging
nit-picking
hair-splitting
judgmental
nitpicking
criticizing
US
judgemental
rejective
pass-remarkable
pernickety
nitpicky
thorny
unfair
exceptive
hairsplitting
very critical
petty
demanding
criticising
UK
exacting
trivial
unjust
cavillous
finicky
tricky
more ❯
“You might want to speak to him at another time as he's a little
on edge
from recent events at the moment.”
Adjective
▲
In a state of suspense or apprehension
on tenterhooks
anxious
apprehensive
in suspense
nervous
agitated
edgy
nervy
strained
tense
worried
fretful
overwrought
restless
stressed
worried sick
fidgety
jittery
jumpy
keyed up
twitchy
waiting with bated breath
worked up
wrought up
strung out
uptight
wired
spooky
squirrelly
windy
excited
having kittens
het up
in a dither
in a flap
in a state
in a state of agitation
in a state of nerves
in a stew
in a sweat
in a tizz
in a tizzy
on pins and needles
overstrung
strung up
toey
all of a dither
bricking oneself
in a twitter
all of a doodah
all of a lather
in a twit
like a cat on a hot tin roof
waiting for the axe to fall
anxiously waiting
apprehensively expecting
fearfully anticipating
nervously awaiting
uneasy
antsy
stressy
ill at ease
troubled
perturbed
upset
unquiet
insecure
dithery
hung up
fearful
frightened
scared
disturbed
aflutter
queazy
queasy
concerned
hyper
restive
hinky
goosey
atwitter
distressed
shaky
bothered
like a cat on hot bricks
high-strung
a bundle of nerves
unsettled
discomposed
adrenalized
panicky
spooked
neurotic
highly strung
wound up
disquieted
afraid
in a cold sweat
trembling
uncomfortable
frantic
hysterical
alarmed
excitable
shaken
beside oneself
shaking
distracted
febrile
flurried
ruffled
unrelaxed
rattled
under stress
hot and bothered
distraught
unnerved
quaking
flustered
terrified
skittish
overexcited
disconcerted
fretting
wrought-up
hesitant
stressed out
unrestful
manic
overanxious
impatient
solicitous
angsty
angstful
having butterflies in the stomach
with your heart in your mouth
shook up
bugged
desperate
fevered
hectic
annoyed
frenzied
startled
quivering
daunted
shocked
dismayed
fraught
aroused
in a panic
stirred
worked-up
overactive
heated
feverish
emotional
inflamed
trepidatious
timorous
hot under the collar
white-knuckled
tormented
fazed
sensitive
irritable
vexed
discombobulated
aghast
unglued
taut
stir-crazy
with one's stomach in knots
frozen
all agog
avid
beside yourself
unsteady
agog
in a blue funk
in a lather
having cold feet
with bated breath
a wreck
shot to pieces
shaking in one's shoes
up the wall
like a fish out of water
nervous wreck
under a strain
running scared
in a funk
clutched
bundle of nerves
confused
thrown
careful
frisky
creepy
frazzled
all of a flutter
exasperated
unstable
brittle
in a frenzy
all wound up
fractious
flushed
intense
stirred up
moved
watchful
shivery
fluttery
white knuckled
pressured
choked
under pressure
awkward
having cabin fever
mentally unsettled
aquiver
in a flat spin
in a spin
sweating bullets
a basket case
dreading
self-conscious
unreluctant
irrational
flighty
withdrawn
strict
old-fashioned
on the defensive
cautious
conventional
animated
roused
hyped-up
afire
atingle
hyperexcited
disorientated
out of place
provoked
uncertain
stiff
lily-livered
suspicious
gun-shy
foreboding
having a funny feeling
weak
mistrustful
having stage fright
biting nails
doubtful
angst-ridden
embarrassed
open-mouthed
zipped up
hot
juiced up
disoriented
bewildered
discomfited
at fever pitch
perplexed
strange
shy
lost
unsure
in turmoil
intimidated
petrified
cowardly
timid
horrified
cowering
pusillanimous
cowed
terrorized
US
affrighted
afeared
hysteric
chicken
in awe
horror-struck
yellow
feart
horror-stricken
stunned
frit
alarmed at
faint-hearted
scared witless
terror-stricken
apprehensive about
scared to death
intimidated by
frightened out of your wits
scared out of your wits
shaking like a leaf
terrorised
UK
panic-stricken
in a fluster
scared stiff
terror-struck
hyperactive
swivel-eyed
tooshie
weary
strung-out
freaked-out
steamed up
overwhelmed
at the end of your tether
flipped out
wound-up
throwing a wobbly
worn
crazy
all shook up
unstrung
touchy
tired
high
keyed-up
affected
fired-up
out of your mind
hot-and-bothered
spent
hot under collar
hassled
anguished
riled
beset
irked
worried stiff
worrying
tortured
muddled
plagued
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Having or showing an excited feeling that something is about to happen, especially something good
expectant
eager
excited
agog
anticipatory
anxious
hopeful
breathless
expecting
waiting
agape
anticipant
anticipating
awaiting
ready
apprehensive
on tenterhooks
watchful
alert
anticipative
hoping
in suspense
keen
prepared
raring
vigilant
keyed up
looking for
waiting on
waiting with bated breath
on pins and needles
with bated breath
enthusiastic
avid
impatient
open-mouthed
all agog
on the edge of your seat
desirous
ardent
hungry
voracious
wild
antsy
solicitous
athirst
thirsty
greedy
gung ho
enthused
pumped
hot
crazy
nuts
longing
stoked
zealous
fervent
geeked
juiced
great
hopped-up
hepped up
yearning
craving
hankering
intent
appetent
desiring
earnest
pining
fervid
acquisitive
passionate
itching
dying to
restless
vehement
ambitious
restive
covetous
dying
thirsting
fanatical
dedicated
wholehearted
devoted
inclined
interested
aching
heated
bursting
curious
enthralled
all a-gog
ready and willing
hot to trot
rarin' to go
self-starting
champing at the bit
wishful
warmblooded
happy
hung up
obsessed
active
unreluctant
engaged
diligent
amenable
committed
assiduous
habitual
willing
warm
diehard
game
hearty
disposed
glad
burning
lusting
sapless
cottonmouthed
juiceless
partial to
bone-dry
crazy for
dying for
itching for
wild for
dry as dust
consumed with desire
intense
insatiable
grasping
ravenous
as keen as mustard
gotta have
keen as mustard
more ❯
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