nervous
US /ˈnɝvəs/
adjective Target · B2 Đời sống hằng ngày
Definition
easily agitated
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
She felt nervous before her first presentation to the board.
Word Family
Synonyms
- anxiouseagerly desirous
- apprehensivequick to understand; - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- tensea grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
Collocations
- Easy feel nervousto feel nervous, meaning to undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- Medium nervous about presenting to clientsdescribing nervous about presenting to clients (easily agitated)
- Hard calm nervous financial markets with injectionsto calm nervous financial markets with injections, meaning to make calm or still
- Very Hard on nervous tenterhooks awaiting arbitration verdictindicating position, contact, or basis regarding nervous tenterhooks awaiting arbitration verdict
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