What is the meaning of nervous?

Easily agitated.
- usage: "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety.
- usage: "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
- synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
Of or relating to the nervous system.
- usage: "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
- synonyms: neural
Excited in anticipation.
- synonyms: aflutter
Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses. ).
- synonyms: skittish, flighty, spooky

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