nervous suggests especially the forcibleness and sustained effectiveness resulting from mental vigor.

Do you feel /get nervous during exams? I was too nervous to speak. She's always been nervous around dogs. I was very nervous about driving again after the accident. He had/was of a …

If someone is nervous, they are frightened or worried about something that is happening or might happen, and show this in their behavior. The party has become deeply nervous about its …

If something makes you angry and impatient because you cannot stop it continuing, don't say that it makes you 'nervous'. Say that you are irritated or annoyed by it.

suffering from, characterized by, or coming from a condition of disordered nerves that affects one's thinking or emotional state:[before a noun] been under a nervous strain.

Definition of nervous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

NERVOUS definition: highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive. See examples of nervous used in a sentence.