nervous

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easily agitated

"a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"

nervous

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in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

"spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"

anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet

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of or relating to the nervous system

"nervous disease"; "neural disorder"

nervous, neural

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excited in anticipation

aflutter, nervous

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unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

flighty, nervous, skittish, spooky

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