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nervous (of the nerves • the nervous system); high-strung; jittery (very nervous and easily upset • She has become very jittery since her accident); nerve; neurotic; high-keyed; highly strung; neuro; psychoneurotic; twitchy; brittle; edgy; unstrung (о человеке); fidget; highlystrung; uptight; uncomfortable (человек и т.п. Pickman); queasy (With all the talk of terrorism some people get queasy. joyand); high keyed; high toned; squeamish; wrought-up; on edge (кот ученый); relating to nerves; relating to neurons; emotional (An emotional Tymoshenko, wearing her trademark plait and a cream-coloured dress, addressed reporters during a break in the reading of the verdict to accuse Yanukovych of building an "authoritarian regime". TG Alexander Demidov); nail-biting (sergeidorogan); fidgety; fussy; tweaky (sea holly); jiggy (Taras); jumpy (nervous; easily upset • He has been very jumpy and irritable lately); waspish (levmoris); skittery (suburbian); trying (on one's nerves); unnerving (The whole thing would have felt just a bit unnerving, if everybody didn't seem so damned friendly. • Every day is now deeply unnerving. Abysslooker); nervy (excitable) |
| Gruzovik |
highly-strung; irritable |
| agric. |
high-strung (о лошади) |
| amer. |
gun-shy (slang Val_Ships); froggy (Taras) |
| amer., inf. |
goosy; goosey |
| anat. |
neural; nerval; nervine |
| austral., slang |
anal |
| avia., med. |
neuronal; overstrung (о человеке) |
| biol. |
excitatory |
| biotechn. |
neural (относящийся к нервной системе) |
| context. |
anxious (I grab his hand, stilling its anxious movements among the wires. Abysslooker) |
| idiom. |
bag of rations (Interex); brass-necked (Nervy; cheeky; shameless. Interex) |
| inf. |
nervy; flappable; nerve-wracking (creating a lot of worry; в контексте • Starting a new job is nerve wracking even for those without an anxiety disorder. 4uzhoj); keyed (Andrey Truhachev); hinky (syn.: nervous, jumpy, jittery Taras) |
| math. |
pertaining to nerve |
| med. |
nervous (о системе) |
| med., Makarov. |
path (головного и спинного мозга) |
| nonstand. |
clutched; clutchy |
| slang |
yantsy; antsy; ballsy; hitchy; keyed up; spooked (особенно без видимой причины); windy; wired; wired up; ill at ease; keyed up; in a twit (Interex); spastic (Interex); strung out (Interex); tightly wound (urbandictionary.com Deska) |
| tech. |
pertaining to nerves |
| uncom. |
nervose |
| vulg. |
in and out like a fart in a colander; like a fart in a bottle |
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neurotics |
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neurotics |
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| gen. |
in a nervous fashion (" 'Well, well,' said the resident patient in a nervous fashion, 'of course it is hard to say that.' " – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ART Vancouver); uncomfortably (Abysslooker); skittishly (Oleg Sollogub); nervously; on pins and needles; compulsively (Dmitry_Arch); fearfully (they hurried them on fearfully along the jungle path Abysslooker) |
| Gruzovik |
fussily |
