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nervously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English nervous Middle English -ly English -ly English nervously From nervous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
   • She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the Fidra lighthouse, giving it all away before it's too late 1987, Derek Dick, “Warm Wet Circles”, in Clutching at Straws, performed by Marillion:
   • 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. 1919, Christopher Morley, “Again the Narrative is Retarded”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 171:

Forms

Translations (19)

ca nerviosament (in a nervous manner) · fr nerveusement (in a nervous manner) · de nervös (in a nervous manner) · it nervosamente (in a nervous manner) · ka ნერვიულად (in a nervous manner) · de erregbar (in a nervous manner) · pt nervosamente (in a nervous manner) · gl nerviosamente (in a nervous manner) · ru не́рвно (in a nervous manner) · sk nervózne (in a nervous manner) · nrf nèrveusement (in a nervous manner) · pl nerwowo (in a nervous manner) · eo nervoze (in a nervous manner) · da nervøst (in a nervous manner) · de gereizt (in a nervous manner) · de hektisch (in a nervous manner) · fi hermostuneesti (in a nervous manner) · es nerviosamente (in a nervous manner) · de unruhig (in a nervous manner)