nervous

nervous /'nə:vəs/
  • tính từ
    • (thuộc) thần kinh
      • the nervous system: hệ thần kinh
      • nervous breakdown (debility, depression, exhaustion, prostraction): sự suy nhược thần kinh
    • dễ bị kích thích; nóng nảy, bực dọc; hay hoảng sợ; hay lo lắng, hay bồn chồn
      • most of the children are nervous in the dark: hầu hết trẻ con thường hoảng sợ trong bóng tối
      • to feel nervous about something: cảm thấy bồn chồn lo lắng về việc gì
      • nervous temperament: tính nóng nảy
    • có dũng khí, có khí lực, mạnh mẽ
      • a man full of nervous energy: một người đầy nghị lực cương cường
    • (văn học) hùng mạnh; cô đọng, khúc chiết
      • nervous style: văn hùng mạnh; văn cô đọng khúc chiết

Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): nerve, nerves, nervousness, unnerve, nervous, nervy, nerveless, unnerving, nervously, nervelessly, unnervingly


Xem thêm: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet, neural, aflutter, skittish, flighty, spooky



nervous

Từ điển Collocation

nervous adj.

VERBS appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound Both men appeared nervous. | become, get, grow | make sb Sit down?you're making me nervous!

ADV. desperately, extremely, highly, really, very He had worked himself up into a highly nervous state. | increasingly | almost | a bit, a little, pretty, quite, rather, slightly, somewhat | suddenly | clearly, obviously | understandably

PREP. about nervous about the wedding | at nervous at what might happen | of I was slightly nervous of him.


Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • easily agitated

    quick nervous movements

  • causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet

    spent an anxious night waiting for the test results

    cast anxious glances behind her

    those nervous moments before takeoff

    an unquiet mind

  • of or relating to the nervous system; neural

    nervous disease

    neural disorder

  • excited in anticipation; aflutter
  • unpredictably excitable (especially of horses); skittish, flighty, spooky

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: agitated disturbed edgy excited high-strung jittery restless ruffled shaken strained tense upset