nervous

adjective/ˈnɜrvəs/

Frequency rank: #2,364 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Worried or slightly frightened about what might happen.

Illustration for the English word “nervous”

Example sentence

She felt very nervous before giving her speech.

Synonyms & related words

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