nervously

1. 1.

   in an anxiously nervous manner

   “we watched the stock market nervously”
2. 2.

   with nervous excitement

   “our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch”

Questions about nervously

What does nervously mean?

nervously means "in an anxiously nervous manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nervously?

nervously has 3 syllables: ner-vou-sly. The stress falls on "ner". In IPA it is /ˈnɝvəsli/.

Is nervously a common word?

nervously is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.