nervously
/nˈɝvəsli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
Example Sentences
- "He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call."
- "Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma."
- "She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the Fidra lighthouse, giving it all away before it's too late"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more nervously (comparative)
most nervously (superlative)