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1. nervousadjective

   easily agitated

   «a nervous addict»; «a nervous thoroughbred»

   Synonyms:
   unquiet, queasy, flighty, uneasy, aflutter, neural, skittish, spooky, anxious

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, relaxed, unexcitable, unexcited

2. anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquietadjective

   causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

   «spent an anxious night waiting for the test results»; «cast anxious glances behind her»; «those nervous moments before takeoff»; «an unquiet mind»

   Synonyms:
   vile, flighty, offensive, sickish, aflutter, nauseating, loathsome, sick, anxious, uneasy, sickening, spooky, restless, awkward, queasy, dying(p), unquiet, anxious(p), noisome, ill at ease(p), skittish, neural, nauseated, nauseous

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, relaxed, unexcitable, unexcited

3. nervous, neuraladjective

   of or relating to the nervous system

   «nervous disease»; «neural disorder»

   Synonyms:
   unquiet, queasy, neuronal, flighty, uneasy, neuronic, aflutter, neural, skittish, spooky, anxious

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, unexcitable, unexcited, relaxed

4. aflutter, nervousadjective

   excited in anticipation

   Synonyms:
   unquiet, queasy, flighty, uneasy, aflutter, neural, skittish, spooky, anxious

   Antonyms:
   relaxed, unexcitable, untroubled, unexcited

5. skittish, flighty, spooky, nervousadjective

   unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

   Synonyms:
   flyaway, queasy, aflutter, flighty, uneasy, unquiet, neural, head-in-the-clouds, skittish, spooky, scatterbrained, anxious

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, relaxed, unexcitable, unexcited

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1. List of paraphrases for «nervous»:

   jumpy, nerve, edgy, tense, neural, jittery, high-strung, excitable, twitchy, anxious, trac, flustered, restless, uptight, skittish, neurological, overwrought, excited, itchy, neurologic

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1. Alon Friedman:

   There are very specific types of toxins that affect these kinds of nervous systems…and these are insecticides, pesticides, organophosphates- specific neurotoxins.

2. Havelock Ellis:

   The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

3. Andy Murray:

   Obviously, Wimbledon for me is special for a lot of reasons. I always want to be here competing, it feels a little bit odd coming into the tournament this year. Normally, like at this stage I feel really nervous, lots of pressure, and I expect a lot of myself around this time of year.

4. Dean Ornish:

   Because they all share the same underlying biological mechanisms: chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, changes in the microbiome, changes in gene expression, overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system, changes in immune function and so on, and in turn, each one of these is directly influenced by what we eat, how we respond to stress, how much exercise we get and how much love and support we have.

5. Adam Kamins:

   Purchasing managers are struggling and are more nervous about the future than they have been at any point since the Great Recession.

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