nervous

Meanings

• easily agitated
  • "a nervous addict"
  • "a nervous thoroughbred"
• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
  • "those nervous moments before takeoff"
• of or relating to the nervous system
  • "nervous disease"
• excited in anticipation
• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

Synonyms

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