Nervous - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 30/01/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Nervous.

5 letter answer(s) to nervous

ANTSY
  1. nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child"
JUMPY
  1. being in a tense state
  2. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride"
TENSE
  1. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  2. become stretched or tense or taut;
  3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
  4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
  5. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
  6. increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
  7. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
  8. taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"
TIMID
  1. lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
  2. lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
  3. people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
  4. showing fear and lack of confidence
  5. Shy

8 letter answer(s) to nervous

ATWITTER
  1. Nervously excited
SKITTISH
  1. Highly strung
  2. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

4 letter answer(s) to nervous

EDGY
  1. being in a tense state
  2. Experimental or Avant-guarde.
  3. highly strung

9 letter answer(s) to nervous

ILLATEASE

7 letter answer(s) to nervous

JITTERY
  1. being in a tense state
  2. characterized by jerky movements; "a jittery ride"
KEYEDUP
TWITCHY
  1. 1. Nervous; anxious 2. Given to twitching

6 letter answer(s) to nervous

ONEDGE

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Nervous'

(Of a horse) nervous
A dictator gains European leadership in Suspense
Agony and ecstasy surrounding York's flower
All keyed up
All nerves
All wound up
Almost all of cricket team getting Home Counties contract
Antsy
Anxious
Anxious and uneasy
Anxious for the future, say
Anxious setter will tantalise, concealing answer
Apprehensive
Apt to snap
Avant-garde piece from talented gypsy
Awkward
… hired gymnasium, showing stuff that's avant garde
… nervous energy, after 10s
BASHFUL
Black singer caught out flirt, becoming uncomfortable
Brace, in a way
Brittle BBC boss welcomed by the old in retirement
Causing anxiety decades before EU’s beginning
Chicken
Constantly shifting
Daring, in a way
Eager
Earnings drained after tax returns in future?
Easily startled
Edgy
Embarrassed, one Liberal departed HQ topless
English 101 subject
Envelope-pushing
Ex-lax?
Excitable
Excitable and unpredictable
Excited
Excited at talk, pointlessly
Excited to take part in advanced gymnastics
Faint-hearted
Fainthearted
Fearful
Fearful and dull, it turned up
Fearful in Germany with upset over passport for example
Fidgeting
Fidgety
Fidgety, maybe
Hardly relaxed
Having the jitters
Header from Midlands team guy, unrelaxed
High-strung
Highly strung
Highly-strung Edward, absorbed in self-reflection
Ill at ease
Impatient
In danger of snapping
In need of a massage, may
In need of a rubdown
Indecisive
Irascible
Irritable
Irritable in overheated gym
Irritable newsman Gary's outside
It may be perfect
It may be present
Itchy Y-fronts lacking an opening Y-shape
Jittery
Jittery Poles protected by supporter on course
Jumpy
Keyed up
King, coming in to occupy throne, twirled this, being playful
Lacking in confidence, not very bright Italian turned up
Lacking in courage
Lacking slack
Language study topic
Leap year makes us nervous
Like a game overtime
Like a tie game in overti
Like hip ads
Like some modern filmmaki
Like sudden-death playoff
Lively piece of satire it’s hard to follow
Maybe past worrying
Meek
More than ready
Most irritable time in artiste's employment
Mousy
Mousy girl college rejected
Nail-biting
Needing a massage, say
Needing kneading?
Nervous - tense
Nervous and at the forefront of fashion
Nervous as sweater becomes sweaty?
Nervous editor's gone running outside
Nervous individual periodically dogged
Nervous journalist has good year after
Nervous journalist, guy that's lost heart
Nervous model heading off wearing jersey inside out
Nervous model losing heart to enchantress
Nervous participant sympathetically covered
Nervous performing at the Fringe?
Nervous runner times his running
Nervous Shakespeare wife dismissed with some banter?
Nervous sibling consumes pot, mostly, and heroin
Nervous wife brought in miniature
Nervous with anticipation for study into self-confidence in retirement
Nervous, gutted, Johnny's drinking beer with no head
Nervous, irritable
Nervous, puzzling 5 across, 10 down
Nervous, tense
Nervous, tense setter's supported by papers
Nervously excited
Nervously excited mostly with treat being arranged
Nervously excited wife breaks into a laugh
Nervously irritable
Not at all relaxed
Not bold
Not easy
Not exactly outgoing
Not relaxed
Not settled
Not sitting well?
Noun concerning verbs
On edge
On pins and needles
On tenterhooks
Past, present or future
Perfect, e.g.
Playful
Playfully frivolous
Playing advantage, so I've got a feeling of nervous anticipation
Pluperfect, e.g.
Present or past, for example
Present, e.g.
Present, for example, in
Prone to fidgeting
Pushing the envelope
Pusillanimous
Really small marrow finally included in stew?
Reportedly, old red wines must be strained
Restive
Restless
Restless as rebrewed ale is behind time coming in
Restless colonists close to colony
Rigid
Seedy guy regularly getting nervous
Send back stupid one close to coconut shy
Shrinking
Shy
Shy - unsure
Shy and retiring
Shy victim I disbelieved in part
Somewhat under­prepared, gymnast nervous
Sort of bordering on tense
Stressed
Stressed out
Stressful
Stressful past, perhaps
Stretched tight
Stretched tight, rigid
Taut
Tense
Tense and nervous
Tense BBC head entered in the out-of-date returns
Tense concerning 11
Tense individual drinking on vacation close to collapse
Tense speaker will, with a banterer
Tense, anxious
Tense, nervous
Tense, ready to jump?
Tense: description of border area?
Tied up in knots
Time I had to accept I’m retiring
Twitchy
Unable to relax
Unable to sit still
Uncomfortable
Unconventionally provocat
Under emotional pressure in past?
Uneasy
Unpredictably excitable
Uptight
Very strong, but not in past or present, say
Weight thrown about, feeling irritated, tense
What a will, e.g., may in
What may be perfect figure with statue's outline
Will knocked off early with a rib that's uncomfortable
Wired
Worked up
Wound up
Yellowish

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