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- Dictionarynervously/ˈnəːvəsli/
adverb
- 1. in an anxious or apprehensive manner: "Kevin nervously glanced at his watch"
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NERVOUSLY definition: 1. feeling or showing that you are worried and anxious: 2. feeling or showing that you are worried…. Learn more.
feeling or showing that you are worried and anxious: He looked nervously over his shoulder, making sure no one else was listening. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Anxious and worried. (all) hot and bothered idiom. aflutter. agitated. angsty. anxious. fretfully. frightened. fuss. get in a sweat idiom. pit of your stomach idiom.
a. : tending to produce nervousness or agitation : uneasy. a nervous situation. His face was twisted in nervous anticipation.
relating to or controlled by the nerves in the body. (Definition of nervous from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
If you're apprehensive or uneasy, you're bound to react nervously. The shy new kid in school might smile nervously at the class, too timid to speak. A tightly-wound small dog may spend most of its anxious life trembling nervously.
Synonyms for NERVOUSLY: anxiously, apprehensively, timidly, shyly, cautiously, diffidently, prudently, skittishly; Antonyms of NERVOUSLY: boldly, fearlessly, bravely, courageously, valiantly, manfully, intrepidly, firmly.
Definition of nervously adverb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
