Exact Match:
- frightened
- made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"
Synonyms:
- 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
Related Words:
- startled
collapse - excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement; "students startled by the teacher's quiet return"; "the sudden fluttering of the startled pigeons"; "her startled expression" related words >
- aroused
collapse
- (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"
- aroused to action; "the aroused opposition"
- feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny"
- brought to a state of great tension; "all wound up for a fight" related words >
- agog,
- alarmed,
- alerted,
- aquiver,
- atingle,
- atwitter,
- bursting,
- carried away,
- ebullient,
- effervescent,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- fired,
- frightened,
- high,
- hopped up,
- impassioned,
- inflamed,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- manic,
- moved,
- ready to burst,
- roused,
- startled,
- steamed up,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- thrilled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- turned-on,
- whipped up,
- worked up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty
- affrighted,
- afraid,
- alarmed,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- consternated,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- dismayed,
- disquieted,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- startled,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- 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
- aghast,
- anxious,
- appalled,
- ashen,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- blanched,
- cowed,
- deadly pale,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- frozen,
- gray with fear,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- intimidated,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- paralyzed,
- petrified,
- scared,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- scary,
- shocked,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- undone,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung
- 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
- aghast,
- alarming,
- anxious,
- awing,
- bashful,
- chilling,
- cowardly,
- crawly,
- creepy,
- daunting,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diffident,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- eerie,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- frightened,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- goosy,
- hair-raising,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrifying,
- in fear,
- intimidating,
- jumpy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overawing,
- rabbity,
- scared,
- scaring,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- spine-chilling,
- spooky,
- startling,
- startlish,
- terrified,
- terrifying,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy
- 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
- edgy
collapse
- being in a tense state related words >
- 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
- disquieted
collapse
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- affrighted,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- beset,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- concerned,
- confused,
- consternated,
- daunted,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- foreboding,
- frightened,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- misgiving,
- mortified,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- solicitous,
- startled,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- zealous
- 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
- 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
- abashed,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- affrighted,
- afraid,
- agape,
- alarmed,
- astray,
- at sea,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- clueless,
- confounded,
- confused,
- consternated,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disoriented,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- dumbfounded,
- embarrassed,
- fainthearted,
- fazed,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- guessing,
- henhearted,
- in a fix,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- lost,
- mazed,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- off the track,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- overwhelmed,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- perturbed,
- pigeonhearted,
- put-out,
- rabbity,
- rattled,
- shocked,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- startled,
- thunderstruck,
- timid,
- timorous,
- turned around,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- upset,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- without a clue,
- yellow
- afraid,
- agitated,
- aguish,
- all shook up,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- aquiver,
- aspen,
- bashful,
- blurred,
- breathy,
- chattering,
- choked,
- choking,
- cowardly,
- croaking,
- diffident,
- doubtful,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dysphonic,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fidgeting,
- fidgety,
- fluttery,
- frightened,
- goosy,
- guttural,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- hesitant,
- hoarse,
- in a quiver,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- indistinct,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lisping,
- mispronounced,
- mousy,
- muzzy,
- nasal,
- nervous,
- palpitating,
- palsied,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quavery,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rabbity,
- scared,
- scary,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shivering,
- shivery,
- shook up,
- shrinking,
- shuddering,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- snuffling,
- startlish,
- stifled,
- strangled,
- succussatory,
- succussive,
- thick,
- throaty,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- trembly,
- tremulant,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- twangy,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- velar,
- vibrating,
- wavering,
- wobbly,
- worried
- timid
collapse
- people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
- showing fear and lack of confidence related words >
- afraid,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- cautious,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- coy,
- craven,
- daunted,
- demure,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- humble,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- intimidated,
- jibbing,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- modest,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- retiring,
- scared,
- scary,
- scrupling,
- self-conscious,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- 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
- afraid,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- amazed,
- anxious,
- appalled,
- ashen,
- astonished,
- astounded,
- at gaze,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- beguiled,
- bewildered,
- bewitched,
- blanched,
- breathless,
- captivated,
- confounded,
- cowed,
- deadly pale,
- dismayed,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstruck,
- enchanted,
- enraptured,
- enravished,
- enthralled,
- entranced,
- fascinated,
- fearful,
- flabbergasted,
- frightened,
- frozen,
- gaping,
- gauping,
- gazing,
- gray with fear,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- hypnotized,
- in awe,
- in awe of,
- intimidated,
- lost in wonder,
- marveling,
- mesmerized,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overwhelmed,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- paralyzed,
- petrified,
- popeyed,
- puzzled,
- rapt in wonder,
- scared,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- scary,
- shocked,
- spellbound,
- staggered,
- staring,
- startled,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- thunderstruck,
- under a charm,
- undone,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- wide-eyed,
- wonder-struck,
- wondering
- cowardly
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- lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley related words >
- abulic,
- afraid,
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bashful,
- bloodless,
- caitiff,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowed,
- craven,
- dastardly,
- daunted,
- debilitated,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- effete,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- faintish,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- frail,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- gone,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- in fear,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jumpy,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lily-livered,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- namby-pamby,
- nerveless,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pithless,
- pliable,
- poltroon,
- poltroonish,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- recreant,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- scared,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinewless,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slack,
- soft,
- spineless,
- spunkless,
- startlish,
- strengthless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unhardened,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- vile,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- weakly,
- white-livered,
- worthless,
- yellow
- petrified
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- so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move"
- converted into a mineral; "petrified wood"
- converted into stone related words >
- Gothic,
- Victorian,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- alabastrine,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- appalled,
- archaic,
- asbestine,
- ashen,
- astonished,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- backed,
- benumbed,
- blanched,
- calcified,
- callous,
- calloused,
- case-hardened,
- classical,
- confounded,
- cowed,
- crusted,
- crusty,
- crystallized,
- deadly pale,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstruck,
- flabbergasted,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- fossil,
- fossilized,
- frightened,
- frozen,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- granulated,
- graphitic,
- gray with fear,
- grown old,
- hardened,
- hornified,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- incrusted,
- indurate,
- indurated,
- inorganic,
- intimidated,
- lapidified,
- lithic,
- marblelike,
- medieval,
- micaceous,
- mid-Victorian,
- mineral,
- numbed,
- of other times,
- old-world,
- ossified,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- panic-stricken,
- paralyzed,
- petrogenic,
- reinforced,
- rigidified,
- rock,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- sclerotic,
- set,
- shocked,
- silicic,
- slaty,
- solidified,
- speechless,
- steeled,
- stiffened,
- stone,
- strengthened,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- sulfuric,
- sulfurous,
- superannuated,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-stricken,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- thunderstruck,
- toughened,
- undone,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- vitrified
- irritable
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- 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
- nervy
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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