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  • 31fearful — Synonyms and 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,… …

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  • 32frightened — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

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  • 33high strung — Synonyms and related words: agitable, all nerves, apprehensive, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, explosive, fearful, fidgety, frightened, goosey, high mettled, high spirited, highly emotional, hypersensitive,… …

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  • 34irritable — Synonyms and related words: aggressive, agitable, all nerves, allergic, anaphylactic, apprehensive, bad tempered, bearish, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, combative, crabbed, crabby, cranky,… …

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  • 35nervous — Synonyms and 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,… …

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  • 36nervy — Synonyms and 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 …

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  • 37on edge — Synonyms and related words: 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 …

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  • 38panicky — Synonyms and 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,… …

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  • 39uneasy — Synonyms and 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,… …

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  • 40excitable — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, high strung, neurotic, easily excited, peevish, irritable, edgy, impatient, intolerant, moody, touchy, irascible, fiery, volatile, resentful, vehement, demonstrative, restless, uneasy, unquiet, mercurial,… …

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