Exact Match:
- edgy
- being in a tense state
Synonyms:
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- combustible,
- eager,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- hasty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mettlesome,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- restive,
- restless,
- sensitive,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- uptight,
- volatile,
- volcanic
Related Words:
- accordant,
- anal,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- corresponding,
- edgy,
- formalistic,
- harmonious,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- kosher,
- nervy,
- orthodox,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- precisianistic,
- restive,
- square,
- straight,
- strained,
- stretched tight,
- stuffy,
- taut,
- tense,
- traditionalist,
- under a strain,
- uneasy,
- unrelaxed
- frightened
collapse - made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move" related words >
- affrighted,
- aghast,
- alarmed,
- alerted,
- all nerves,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- aroused,
- consternated,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- disquieted,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fearful,
- high-strung,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- irritable,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- scared,
- scary,
- startled,
- terrified,
- uneasy
- eruptive
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- actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"
- producing or characterized by eruptions; "an eruptive disease" related words >
- agitable,
- bursting,
- detonating,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- excitable,
- explodable,
- explosible,
- explosive,
- fulminating,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mettlesome,
- nervous,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- volcanic
- all nerves,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- eager,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- excited,
- fearful,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- hasty,
- high-strung,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in suspense,
- irritable,
- keyed-up,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- quivering,
- restive,
- restless,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- taut,
- tense,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense
- bad-tempered,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- captious,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- contentious,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- disagreeable,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- grouchy,
- grumpy,
- hot-tempered,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mean,
- on edge,
- ornery,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- petulant,
- pissed off,
- quarrelsome,
- querulous,
- quick-tempered,
- short-tempered,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- tetchy,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- waspish
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fidgety,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- highly emotional,
- hypersensitive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- taut,
- temperamental,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- tight,
- touchy,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unrelaxed,
- unrestful,
- uptight,
- volcanic
- volcanic
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- igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt; "volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian"
- explosively unstable; "a volcanic temper"
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes; "volcanic steam"; "volcanic islands such as Iceland"; "a volcanic cone is a conical mountain or hill built up of material from volcanic eruptions" related words >
- agitable,
- bursting,
- combustible,
- detonating,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explodable,
- explosible,
- explosive,
- fierce,
- fiery,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- hasty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- impetuous,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mettlesome,
- nervous,
- passionate,
- peppery,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- quick,
- quick-tempered,
- sensitive,
- short-tempered,
- simmering,
- skittish,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- stormy,
- tempestuous,
- tornadic,
- touchy,
- vehement,
- violent,
- wild
- agitable,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- contrary,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- difficult,
- disagreeable,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- froward,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- inflammable,
- irritable,
- mean,
- mettlesome,
- nervous,
- ornery,
- perturbable,
- perverse,
- prickly,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- testy,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- wrongheaded
- agitable,
- arch,
- beany,
- brash,
- devilish,
- ebullient,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- elfish,
- elvish,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fiery,
- foolish,
- full of mischief,
- high-mettled,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- impish,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jolly,
- knavish,
- lighthearted,
- merry,
- mettlesome,
- mirthful,
- mischief-loving,
- mischievous,
- nervous,
- peppery,
- perturbable,
- playful,
- prankish,
- pranksome,
- pranky,
- prickly,
- puckish,
- roguish,
- scampish,
- scapegrace,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- sportive,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- vivacious,
- volcanic,
- waggish
- panicky
collapse
- thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" related words >
- afraid,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- high-strung,
- in a panic,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panic-struck,
- panicked,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- agog,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- aquiver,
- aroused,
- atingle,
- atwitter,
- breathless,
- bursting,
- carried away,
- chafing,
- doped,
- eager,
- ebullient,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- fired,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- hasty,
- high,
- hopped up,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflamed,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- manic,
- moved,
- on edge,
- ready to burst,
- restive,
- restless,
- roused,
- spaced-out,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- steamed up,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- stoned,
- thrilled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- turned-on,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- whipped up,
- wiped out,
- worked up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty,
- zonked
- unquiet
collapse
- characterized by unrest or disorder; "unquiet days of riots"; "following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation"; "spent an unquiet night tossing and turning" related words >
- agitated,
- anguished,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- bored,
- breathless,
- bustling,
- chafing,
- cheerless,
- depressed,
- discomposed,
- disgusted,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- edgy,
- excited,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- fussing,
- fussy,
- grim,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- jittery,
- joyless,
- jumpy,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- perturbed,
- pleasureless,
- prey to malaise,
- repelled,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- ruffled,
- sad,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- sickened,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stirred up,
- suffering angst,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unpeaceful,
- unrestful,
- unsatisfied,
- unsettled,
- upset
- apprehensive
collapse
- in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
- mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
- quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne related words >
- afraid,
- agitated,
- alive,
- all nerves,
- all-knowing,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- apprehending,
- awake,
- aware,
- bothered,
- cognizant,
- comprehending,
- concerned,
- conscious,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- frightened,
- high-strung,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in suspense,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- irritable,
- keyed-up,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- mindful,
- misgiving,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- omniscient,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perturbed,
- prehensile,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quivering,
- sagacious,
- sensible,
- sentient,
- shrewd,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- troubled,
- understanding,
- uneasy,
- ware,
- wise,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- witting,
- zealous
- impatient
collapse
- restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism" related words >
- abrupt,
- agitated,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- all agog,
- animated,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- athirst,
- avid,
- breathless,
- brusque,
- bursting to,
- chafing,
- curt,
- demanding,
- desirous,
- eager,
- edgy,
- excited,
- fidgety,
- forward,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- full of life,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- hopped-up,
- hot-tempered,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- indignant,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- keen,
- lively,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- overhasty,
- panting,
- precipitate,
- prompt,
- querulous,
- quick,
- raring to,
- rash,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- reckless,
- restive,
- restless,
- short,
- short-tempered,
- snappish,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- sudden,
- testy,
- thirsty,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- waspish,
- zestful
- accendible,
- agitable,
- alcohol,
- benzine,
- briquette,
- burnable,
- butane,
- carbon,
- charcoal,
- coal,
- coke,
- combustible,
- dope,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- ethane,
- ethanol,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fiery,
- fireball,
- firing,
- flammable,
- flammable material,
- fuel,
- fuel additive,
- fuel dope,
- gas,
- gas carbon,
- gasoline,
- heptane,
- hexane,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- inflammable material,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- isooctane,
- jet fuel,
- kerosene,
- methane,
- methanol,
- mettlesome,
- natural gas,
- nervous,
- octane,
- oil,
- paraffin,
- peat,
- pentane,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- propane,
- propellant,
- rocket fuel,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- turf,
- volcanic
- excitable
collapse
- easily excited
- capable of responding to stimuli related words >
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- combustible,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- disagreeable,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- feisty,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- fractious,
- frightened,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot-blooded,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- hysterical,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jumpy,
- mean,
- mercurial,
- mettlesome,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- ornery,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- perverse,
- prickly,
- quick-tempered,
- restive,
- restless,
- sensitive,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- temperamental,
- testy,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- uneasy,
- unstable,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- waspish
- emotional
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- of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"
- determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; "it was an emotional judgment"
- of or pertaining to emotion; "emotional health"; "an emotional crisis" related words >
- affecting,
- affectional,
- affective,
- agitable,
- agitated,
- ardent,
- characteristic,
- constitutional,
- demonstrative,
- dispositional,
- edgy,
- emote,
- emotiometabolic,
- emotiomotor,
- emotionable,
- emotionalize,
- emotionally unstable,
- emotiovascular,
- emotive,
- enthusiastic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- feeling,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- frantic,
- glandular,
- gut,
- heartfelt,
- heated,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hotheaded,
- hysterical,
- impassioned,
- inflammable,
- innate,
- intellectual,
- irascible,
- irrational,
- irritable,
- mental,
- mettlesome,
- moving,
- nervous,
- of soul,
- overdemonstrative,
- passionate,
- perturbable,
- poignant,
- prickly,
- ranting,
- responsive,
- rhapsodic,
- rhapsodical,
- sensitive,
- sentient,
- sentimental,
- skittish,
- softhearted,
- soulful,
- spiritual,
- startlish,
- stirring,
- susceptible,
- susceptive,
- sympathetic,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- tense,
- touching,
- touchy,
- visceral,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- warm,
- wild,
- zealous
- mettlesome
collapse
- having a proud and unbroken spirit related words >
- active,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- agitable,
- animated,
- beany,
- brisk,
- bulldoggish,
- courageous,
- dauntless,
- dynamic,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fiery,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- full of pep,
- game,
- gamy,
- go-go,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hearty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- impetuous,
- incisive,
- inflammable,
- intense,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- keen,
- kinetic,
- lively,
- living,
- lusty,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- peppery,
- peppy,
- pertinacious,
- perturbable,
- plucky,
- prickly,
- red-blooded,
- resolute,
- robust,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- tenacious,
- touchy,
- tough,
- trenchant,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- volcanic,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- agitated,
- all shook up,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- bashful,
- bustling,
- convulsive,
- cowardly,
- diffident,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- eclamptic,
- edgy,
- excited,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feverish,
- fidgeting,
- fidgety,
- fitful,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- fretful,
- fussing,
- fussy,
- goosey,
- goosy,
- high-strung,
- in a quiver,
- in fear,
- jerking,
- jerky,
- jiggety,
- jittery,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- orgasmic,
- panicky,
- perturbed,
- queasy,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rabbity,
- restive,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- saltatory,
- scary,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shivering,
- shivery,
- shook up,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- stirred up,
- tense,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- trembly,
- tremulant,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twitchety,
- twitching,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- vellicative
- afraid
collapse
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement; "I'm afraid I won't be able to come"; "he was afraid he would have to let her go"; "I'm afraid you're wrong"
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity; "She was afraid that I might be embarrassed"; "terribly afraid of offending someone"; "I am afraid we have witnessed only the first phase of the conflict"
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness; "afraid of hard work"; "afraid to show emotion" related words >
- abulic,
- afeared,
- aghast,
- anxious,
- apologetic,
- apprehensive,
- averse,
- backward,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- edgy,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- fear-struck,
- feared,
- fearful,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- frail,
- frightened,
- fritter,
- funking,
- funky,
- haunted with fear,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- indisposed,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loath,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pliable,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- regretful,
- reluctant,
- rueful,
- scared,
- scared to death,
- scary,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittish,
- soft,
- sorry,
- spineless,
- spooked,
- terrified,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uneager,
- unhappy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unwilling,
- wary,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- fretful
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- habitually complaining; "a whining child" related words >
- Jeremianic,
- abrupt,
- agitated,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- bad-tempered,
- breathless,
- bustling,
- captious,
- carping,
- catty,
- caviling,
- chafing,
- choleric,
- complaining,
- contrary,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- critical,
- cross,
- curt,
- disagreeable,
- eager,
- edgy,
- excited,
- faultfinding,
- fidgety,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- fractious,
- fretting,
- fussing,
- fussy,
- grumpy,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- howling,
- huffy,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jumpy,
- lamentive,
- moanful,
- moody,
- mournful,
- nagging,
- naggy,
- on edge,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- puling,
- querulous,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- short,
- short-tempered,
- shrewish,
- snappish,
- sorrowful,
- splenetic,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- sulky,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- touchy,
- turbulent,
- ululant,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- vexed,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wailful,
- waspish,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny
- acanaceous,
- acanthoid,
- aciculate,
- aculeate,
- aculeolate,
- agitable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- annoying,
- atingle,
- bad-tempered,
- barbed,
- bothersome,
- brambly,
- briery,
- bristly,
- cantankerous,
- complex,
- complicated,
- contentious,
- cranky,
- crawling,
- crawly,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- goosy,
- hard,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- inflammable,
- intricate,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- knotty,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- muricate,
- nervous,
- nettlesome,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- peevish,
- perturbable,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- pricking,
- prickling,
- pricky,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- setaceous,
- setose,
- short-tempered,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- spiculate,
- spiky,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- startlish,
- stinging,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- thistly,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- touchy,
- troublesome,
- volcanic,
- waspish
- abashed,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- astray,
- at sea,
- balled-up,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- chaotic,
- clueless,
- concerned,
- confused,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disordered,
- disorganized,
- disoriented,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- fearful,
- flustered,
- fluttered,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- fussed,
- guessing,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a bother,
- in a dither,
- in a ferment,
- in a fix,
- in a flurry,
- in a fluster,
- in a flutter,
- in a foofaraw,
- in a huff,
- in a jumble,
- in a lather,
- in a maze,
- in a pet,
- in a pickle,
- in a pother,
- in a pucker,
- in a quiver,
- in a scrape,
- in a sweat,
- in a swivet,
- in a temper,
- in a tizzy,
- in a turmoil,
- in a twitter,
- in an uproar,
- jumbled,
- lost,
- mazed,
- misgiving,
- mixed-up,
- nervous,
- off the track,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- rattled,
- restive,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shook,
- shuffled,
- solicitous,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- turned around,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- without a clue,
- zealous
- ablation,
- ablative,
- abradant,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- annoying,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxiety,
- anxious,
- attrition,
- attritive,
- bothersome,
- breathless,
- breathless impatience,
- buffing,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- detrition,
- disquieting,
- disquietude,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dressing,
- eager,
- eagerness,
- edgy,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- erosive,
- excited,
- excitement,
- filing,
- fretful,
- fretfulness,
- galling,
- gnawing,
- grating,
- grazing,
- grinding,
- harassing,
- harassment,
- haste,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- impatience,
- impatient,
- impatientness,
- impetuous,
- impetuousness,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- irritant,
- irritating,
- irritative,
- lather,
- limation,
- on edge,
- plaguing,
- polishing,
- rasping,
- restive,
- restiveness,
- restless,
- restlessness,
- rubbing away,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scratchy,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shining,
- smoothing,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stew,
- stinging,
- sweat,
- tense readiness,
- torment,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- uneasiness,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unpatientness,
- unquiet,
- unquietness,
- upsetting,
- wear,
- wearing away,
- worriedness,
- worries and cares,
- worriment,
- worrisome,
- worry,
- worrying
- agitable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- argumentative,
- bad-tempered,
- bearish,
- cantankerous,
- captious,
- chancy,
- choleric,
- close,
- contentious,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- critical,
- cross,
- crusty,
- dangerous,
- delicate,
- dicey,
- disputatious,
- dyspeptic,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- frightening,
- goosy,
- grouchy,
- hair-raising,
- hairbreadth,
- hairy,
- harmful,
- hazardous,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot-tempered,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- nerve-racking,
- nervous,
- on slippery ground,
- on thin ice,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- parlous,
- passible,
- peevish,
- perturbable,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- precarious,
- prickly,
- querulous,
- quick-tempered,
- ratty,
- refined,
- responsive,
- risky,
- sensitive,
- short-tempered,
- skittish,
- slippery,
- slippy,
- snappish,
- snarling,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- tense,
- terrifying,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touch-and-go,
- tricky,
- uncertain,
- unpredictable,
- unsafe,
- unsure,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- waspish
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- arabesque,
- ballyhooed,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- distracted,
- edgy,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fidgety,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- in a dither,
- in a tizzy,
- in a twitter,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overcome,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overexcited,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overlarge,
- overmastered,
- overpowered,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstrained,
- overstressed,
- overwhelmed,
- overworked,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- strung out,
- superlative,
- tall,
- tense,
- tortuous,
- touchy,
- touted,
- upset,
- uptight,
- wound up
- irritable
collapse
- abnormally sensitive to a stimulus related words >
- aggressive,
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apprehensive,
- bad-tempered,
- bearish,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- combative,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- delicate,
- disagreeable,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- dyspeptic,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eristic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- factional,
- factious,
- fearful,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- frightened,
- goosy,
- grouchy,
- gruff,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- itchy,
- litigious,
- mean,
- mettlesome,
- moody,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- ornery,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- overtender,
- panicky,
- partisan,
- passible,
- peevish,
- perturbable,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- pindling,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- prickly,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- querulous,
- raspy,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- short-tempered,
- shrewish,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- uneasy,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- whiny,
- wrangling
- skittish
collapse
- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) related words >
- agitable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- animated,
- antic,
- bashful,
- capersome,
- changeable,
- coltish,
- combustible,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coquettish,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- delicate,
- demure,
- diffident,
- dizzy,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty-headed,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- exuberant,
- faddish,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fickle,
- flighty,
- flirtatious,
- frisky,
- frivolous,
- frolicsome,
- full of beans,
- gamesome,
- gay,
- giddy,
- goosy,
- harebrained,
- hearty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- inconstant,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irresponsible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jumpy,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lively,
- mercurial,
- mettlesome,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perturbable,
- playful,
- prickly,
- quicksilver,
- rabbity,
- rattlebrained,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restive,
- rollicking,
- rollicksome,
- rompish,
- scary,
- scatterbrained,
- self-conscious,
- sensitive,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- spirited,
- sportive,
- sprightly,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- toying,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- undependable,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- vacillating,
- versatile,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- zestful,
- zippy
- nervy
collapse
- showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers" related words >
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- beefy,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bold,
- bouncing,
- brash,
- bulldoggish,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- derisive,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- disrespectful,
- disturbed,
- doughty,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- excited,
- facy,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flip,
- flippant,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- forward,
- fresh,
- frightened,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gally,
- game,
- gamy,
- goosey,
- gratuitous,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- high-strung,
- husky,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- iron-hard,
- irritable,
- jerky,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lusty,
- malapert,
- mettlesome,
- mighty,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- obstinate,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- pert,
- pertinacious,
- perturbed,
- plucky,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- red-blooded,
- resolute,
- restive,
- restless,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rude,
- ruffled,
- rugged,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spooky,
- spunky,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stirred up,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- tough,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- uncalled-for,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- wise-ass
- anxious
collapse
- 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" related words >
- aching,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- alarmed,
- all agog,
- all-overish,
- anguished,
- animated,
- annoyed,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- ardent,
- athirst,
- avid,
- beset,
- bored,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- bursting to,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chafing,
- cheerless,
- concerned,
- depressed,
- desirous,
- disgusted,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- forward,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- full of life,
- grim,
- harassed,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- ill at ease,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- importunate,
- in a lather,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in suspense,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- jittery,
- joyless,
- keen,
- keyed-up,
- lively,
- longing,
- misgiving,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- panting,
- perturbed,
- plagued,
- pleasureless,
- pressing,
- prey to malaise,
- prompt,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quick,
- quivering,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- repelled,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- sad,
- scared,
- scary,
- sickened,
- solicitous,
- sore beset,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- strained,
- suffering angst,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- terrified,
- thirsty,
- troubled,
- uncertain,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unsatisfied,
- upset,
- urgent,
- vexed,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- wary,
- watchful,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- worried,
- yearning,
- zealous,
- zestful
- excited
collapse
- in an aroused state related words >
- ablaze,
- active,
- afire,
- aflame,
- agitated,
- agog,
- animated,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- aquiver,
- ardent,
- aroused,
- atingle,
- attracted,
- atwitter,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- brisk,
- burning,
- bursting,
- carried away,
- cathectic,
- chafing,
- concerned,
- cordial,
- curious,
- delighted,
- delirious,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- drunk,
- eager,
- ebullient,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- elated,
- electrified,
- energetic,
- energized,
- enthusiastic,
- exhilarated,
- exuberant,
- fascinated,
- febrile,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- fiery,
- fired,
- flaming,
- flurried,
- flushed,
- flustered,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- galvanized,
- glowing,
- hasty,
- hearty,
- heated,
- high,
- hopped up,
- hopped-up,
- hot,
- hysterical,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflamed,
- intense,
- interested,
- intoxicated,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- keen,
- keen on,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- lively,
- manic,
- moved,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on fire,
- overwrought,
- passionate,
- perturbed,
- pink,
- piqued,
- ready to burst,
- red-hot,
- restive,
- restless,
- roused,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- steamed up,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- tantalized,
- thrilled,
- tickled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- titillated,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- turned on,
- turned-on,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestrained,
- upset,
- vehement,
- vigorous,
- warm,
- whipped up,
- worked up,
- wound up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty,
- zealous
- restive
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- impatient especially under restriction or delay; "the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive" related words >
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apathetic,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- beyond control,
- bigoted,
- bitching,
- breachy,
- breathless,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- chafing,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- contumacious,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- cross-grained,
- defiant,
- dilatory,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- eager,
- edgy,
- envious,
- excited,
- fanatic,
- faultfinding,
- fidgety,
- fluttery,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- froward,
- fussy,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grudging,
- grumbling,
- hardheaded,
- hasty,
- headstrong,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impatient of control,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- incorrigible,
- indifferent,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- insuppressible,
- intolerant,
- intractable,
- irrepressible,
- laggard,
- loath,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- mulish,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nervy,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- on edge,
- opinionated,
- ornery,
- out of hand,
- out of humor,
- overzealous,
- peevish,
- perfunctory,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- petulant,
- pigheaded,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- resentful,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- restless,
- self-willed,
- set,
- shrewish,
- slow,
- slow to,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- unbiddable,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- uneasy,
- unenthusiastic,
- unfulfilled,
- ungovernable,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unregenerate,
- unrestful,
- unruly,
- unsatisfied,
- unsettled,
- unsubmissive,
- unzealous,
- uptight,
- wayward,
- whiny,
- wild,
- willful,
- wrongheaded
- uneasy
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- relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort
- lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance; "farmers were uneasy until rain finally came"; "uneasy about his health"; "gave an uneasy laugh"; "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"; "an uneasy coalition government"; "an uneasy calm"; "an uneasy silence fell on the group"
- not affording rest; "spent a restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- ambiguous,
- anguished,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- beset,
- bitching,
- borderline,
- bored,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- careful,
- cast down,
- chafing,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- cheerless,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- concerned,
- confused,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- depressed,
- disappointed,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- disgusted,
- displeased,
- disquieted,
- dissatisfied,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- doubtable,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- envious,
- excitable,
- excited,
- faultfinding,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- fluttery,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- fussy,
- grim,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- hasty,
- high-strung,
- hopped-up,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- joyless,
- jumpy,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- misgiving,
- mortified,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- out of humor,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- peevish,
- perturbed,
- petulant,
- pleasureless,
- precarious,
- prey to malaise,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- rebellious,
- repelled,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- ruffled,
- sad,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaky,
- sickened,
- solicitous,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suffering angst,
- sulky,
- suspect,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uncertain,
- uncomfortable,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- unsatisfied,
- unsettled,
- unsure,
- upset,
- uptight,
- whiny,
- worried,
- zealous
- eager
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- having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy; "eager to learn"; "eager to travel abroad"; "eager for success"; "eager helpers"; "an eager look" related words >
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquisitive,
- affirmative,
- agape,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- agreeing,
- alacritous,
- all agog,
- ambitious,
- amenable,
- animated,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- appetitive,
- approving,
- ardent,
- assenting,
- athirst,
- avid,
- awaiting,
- breathless,
- bursting to,
- certain,
- chafing,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- confident,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- content,
- cooperative,
- covetous,
- craving,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- disposed,
- docile,
- dying,
- earnest,
- edgy,
- endorsing,
- energetic,
- energized,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- forward,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- full of life,
- game,
- gaping,
- gung ho,
- hankering,
- hasty,
- heated,
- honing,
- hopeful,
- hoping,
- hopped-up,
- hormic,
- hot,
- hungry,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- inspirited,
- intent,
- itchy,
- keen,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lively,
- longing,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- lustful,
- minded,
- needing,
- not surprised,
- nothing loath,
- on edge,
- optative,
- optimistic,
- panting,
- passionate,
- permissive,
- pining,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- prepared,
- prompt,
- prone,
- quick,
- raring,
- raring to,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- restive,
- restless,
- sanctioning,
- sanguine,
- solicitous,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stimulated,
- submissive,
- sure,
- tempted,
- thirsty,
- tractable,
- uneasy,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unsurprised,
- vehement,
- vital,
- vitalized,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- wanting,
- watching for,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- wishful,
- wishing,
- yearning,
- zealous,
- zestful
- fearful
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- experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
- extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" related words >
- aflutter,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- alarming,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- appalling,
- apprehensive,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- awing,
- baleful,
- bashful,
- bothered,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- chilling,
- concerned,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- daunting,
- deadly,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diffident,
- dire,
- direful,
- discomposed,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disgusting,
- disheartening,
- dismayed,
- dismaying,
- disquieted,
- disquieting,
- disturbed,
- dreadful,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- foreboding,
- formidable,
- frightened,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- funking,
- funky,
- ghastly,
- goosy,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- heinous,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hideous,
- high-strung,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- howling,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in fear,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loathsome,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- malign,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- misgiving,
- monstrous,
- mousy,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overawing,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- overwhelming,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- perturbed,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- redoubtable,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rousing,
- scared,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shocking,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinister,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- solicitous,
- startling,
- startlish,
- strained,
- sublime,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- terrified,
- terrifying,
- terror-stricken,
- thumping,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremendous,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unspeakable,
- unwilling,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- whacking,
- white-livered,
- yellow,
- zealous
- nervous
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- easily agitated; "quick nervous movements"
- of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder" related words >
- acid,
- agitable,
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- biting,
- bothered,
- concerned,
- corrosive,
- cowardly,
- critical,
- cutting,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- diffident,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- driving,
- edgy,
- effective,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- goosy,
- gutsy,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- in a dither,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a tizzy,
- in fear,
- incisive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- misgiving,
- mordant,
- mousy,
- nerval,
- nerves on edge,
- nervy,
- neural,
- neurological,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- overtender,
- panicky,
- passible,
- penetrating,
- perturbable,
- perturbed,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- powerful,
- prickly,
- punchy,
- querulous,
- rabbity,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- scared,
- scary,
- sensational,
- sensitive,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slashing,
- snappish,
- solicitous,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- striking,
- strong,
- strung out,
- supersensitive,
- suspenseful,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- telling,
- tender,
- tense,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trenchant,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- worked up,
- worried,
- wrought up,
- zealous
- volatile
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- a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"
- tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"
- evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents" related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agitable,
- airy,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- bouncy,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- buoyant,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- charged,
- coquettish,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- downy,
- dying,
- eccentric,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- ephemeral,
- erratic,
- eruptive,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- evaporable,
- evaporative,
- expansive,
- explosive,
- faddish,
- fading,
- fast and loose,
- featherbrained,
- feathery,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- fleeting,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flippant,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fluffy,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- giddy,
- gossamery,
- hair-trigger,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- imponderous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- leger,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-minded,
- lighter than vanity,
- lubricious,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- momentary,
- moody,
- mortal,
- mousse,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- protean,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- resilient,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- sensitive,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short-lived,
- shuffling,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- souffle,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- startlish,
- superficial,
- temperamental,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tense,
- ticklish,
- toying,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unfixed,
- unheavy,
- unpredictable,
- unprofound,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- vaporable,
- vaporescent,
- vaporizable,
- vaporizing,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatilizable,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weightless,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- yeasty
- restless
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- worried and uneasy
- ceaselessly in motion; "the restless sea"; "the restless wind" related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agitated,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bitching,
- breathless,
- bustling,
- capricious,
- chafing,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- disappointed,
- discomposed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- disquieted,
- dissatisfied,
- disturbed,
- dizzy,
- eager,
- eccentric,
- edgy,
- envious,
- erratic,
- excitable,
- excited,
- fast and loose,
- faultfinding,
- feverish,
- fickle,
- fidgety,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- freakish,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- fussing,
- fussy,
- giddy,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- hasty,
- high-strung,
- hopped-up,
- hyper,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insomniac,
- insomnious,
- intermittent,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of humor,
- peevish,
- perturbed,
- petulant,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- rambling,
- rebellious,
- resentful,
- restive,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- scatterbrained,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- skittish,
- sleepless,
- slumberless,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stirred up,
- sulky,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- uneasy,
- unfixed,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unpeaceful,
- unpredictable,
- unquiet,
- unreliable,
- unrestful,
- unrestrained,
- unsatisfied,
- unsettled,
- unsleeping,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wakeful,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- whiny,
- wishy-washy,
- worked up
- explosive
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- a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
- serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"
- sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh"
- liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" related words >
- Ballistite,
- TNT,
- agitable,
- alarming,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- anxious,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bad,
- banging,
- bilabial,
- blasting,
- bursting,
- cacuminal,
- cellulose nitrate,
- cerebral,
- chancy,
- check,
- combustible,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- cordite,
- cracking,
- crashing,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- delicate,
- dental,
- detonating,
- dicey,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- dynamite,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- epenthetic vowel,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explodable,
- exploding,
- explosible,
- fiery,
- flapping,
- fraught,
- fraught with danger,
- fulminating,
- gelignite,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- gunpowder,
- guttural,
- hasty,
- hazardous,
- high explosive,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- iffy,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jeopardous,
- knocking,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- manner of articulation,
- melinite,
- menacing,
- mettlesome,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- nasty,
- nervous,
- nitrocotton,
- nitroglycerin,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- parlous,
- passionate,
- peak,
- peppery,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- perturbable,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plastic,
- plastic explosive,
- plosive,
- popping,
- powder,
- precarious,
- prickly,
- prothetic vowel,
- quick,
- quick-tempered,
- rapping,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- shaky,
- short-tempered,
- skittish,
- slapping,
- slatting,
- smokeless powder,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- stop,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tapping,
- tense,
- threatening,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- transition sound,
- trinitrotoluol,
- triphthong,
- ugly,
- uncertain,
- unpredictable,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- velar,
- villanous saltpetre,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- vowel
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