nervous
/ˈnɝvəs/ adjective A2- Supplied with nerves; innervated.
- Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.
- Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge. · Being in a crowd of strangers makes me nervous.
- Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
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“It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine.”
“Alas!” replied our visitor, “the very horror of my situation lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it as the fancies of a nervous woman.
The clerk was struck at the time by his excited and nervous manner.
This made Marilla more nervous than ever; she had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child’s body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.
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