nervous

adjective10

1. •
   feeling worried and a little afraid about what is going to happen

   • They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right. — 1843
2. •
   Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.

   • Being in a crowd of strangers makes me nervous.
3. •
   Of nerves.
4. •
   Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.

   • Elizabeth Moss, a girl of about 15 years of age, was attacked, in December, 1773, with a slow nervous fever, during the course of which she had very little sleep; […] — 1774
5. •
   Supplied with nerves; innervated.
6. •
   Of sinews and tendons.
7. •
   (no longer used) Nervose.

   • CANNACORUS, […] It hath a knobbed tuberose Root: The Leaves are long and nervous: […] — 1733
8. •
   (no longer used) Full of sinews.
9. •
   (no longer used) Having strong or prominent sinews; sinewy, muscular.

   • [T]here is nothing in marble equal to the Venus of Medici, for softness and tenderness; as there is nothing so strong and nervous, as the Hercules Farnese. — 1747
10. •
    (no longer used) Of a piece of writing, literary style etc.: forceful, powerful.

    • Fortescutus illustratus, or a commentary on that nervous treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliae […] [book title] — 1663