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What does nervous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nervous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
  2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
  3. Relating to or affecting the nerves.
  4. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
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Too much sympathetic nervous system activity can be associated with stress, anxiety, and dysphoric mood.
The sympathetic nervous system, not white blood cells, is critically important in the regulation of energy expenditure and thermogenesis.
Drugs can modulate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system by affecting the synthesis, storage, release or reuptake of noradrenaline.
Those who are sensitive, nervous and anxious, with a reserved nature, are prone.
Some may be anxious and nervous or may develop behaviors to avoid stimuli that remind them of past experiences.
Without a studio audience to warm things up, Vaughan's attempts to jolly things along fall flat to the sounds of nervous giggles from the crew.

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