nervous
adjEtymology
From Middle English nervous (“composed of or incorporating nerves”), from Latin nervōsus (“nervous; sinewy; energetic, vigorous”), from nervus (“nerve; muscle; sinew, tendon; (figuratively) energy, power; nerve; force, strength, vigour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is analysable as nerve + -ous.
- derived from *snéh₁wr̥✻
- derived from nervōsus
Definitions
Of sinews and tendons.
Of nerves.
The neighborhood
- synonymangstful
- synonymapprehensive
- synonymanxious
- synonymcareful
- synonymconcerned
- synonymdistraught
- synonymdisturbed
- synonymedgy
- synonymfraught
- synonymfreaked out
- synonymhagridden
- synonymhigh-strung
- antonymcalm
- antonymintrepid
- antonymunperturbed
- antonymunworried
- neighbornervosity
- neighborfantod (medical term)
- neighbornervous nelly
- neighbornervous hit
- neighbornail biter
- neighborhave butterflies in one's stomach
- neighborget cold feet
- neighborsweat bullets
- neighborafraid
- neighborcautious
- neighborexcited
- neighboremotional
Derived
as nervous as a witch, autonomic nervous system, central nervous system, electronervous, enteric nervous system, internervous, nervcited, nervicited, nervited, nervous as a cat, nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, nervous as a whore in church, nervous breakdown, nervous energy, nervous hit, nervously, nervous-Nellie, nervous nellie, nervous nelly, nervous-Nelly, nervousness, nervous nineties, nervous pudding, nervous Purvis, nervous tissue, nervous wreck, nonnervous, overnervous, parasympathetic nervous system, perinervous, peripheral nervous system, seminervous, somatic nervous system, sympathetic nervous system, unnervous, vasculonervous, vegetative nervous system
Vish — recursive loop
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A definitional loop anchored at nervous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at nervous
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA