nervous

Other forms of nervous

comparative

nervouser·

superlative

nervousest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nervous

What does nervous mean?

nervous means "easily agitated". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nervous?

nervous has 2 syllables: ner-vous. The stress falls on "ner". In IPA it is /ˈnɝvəs/.

What is another word for nervous?

Close synonyms include anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet, neural. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nervous a common word?

nervous is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.