nervy
adjective
[ ˈnəːvi ]
• easily agitated or alarmed; nervous.
• "he was nervy and on edge"
Similar:
nervous,
anxious,
tense,
on edge,
edgy,
strained,
stressed,
agitated,
apprehensive,
in a state of nerves,
in a state of agitation,
uneasy,
restless,
worked up,
keyed up,
overwrought,
wrought up,
strung out,
jumpy,
on tenterhooks,
with one's stomach in knots,
fidgety,
fearful,
frightened,
scared,
like a cat on a hot tin roof,
quaking,
trembling,
shaking,
shaking in one's shoes,
shaky,
on pins and needles,
in a cold sweat,
fevered,
febrile,
excitable,
neurotic,
highly strung,
in a state,
uptight,
wired,
in a stew,
all of a dither,
in a sweat,
in a flap,
in a tizz/tizzy,
all of a lather,
het up,
in a twitter,
strung up,
stressy,
windy,
having kittens,
all of a doodah,
like a cat on hot bricks,
spooky,
squirrelly,
in a twit,
toey,
overstrung,
shitting bricks,
bricking oneself,
• bold or impudent.
• "it was kind of nervy for Billy to be telling him how to play"
• vigorous or strong.
