Nervous and Wound-up

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Nervous

Nervous adjective - Feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty.
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Wound-up and nervous are semantically related In some cases you can use "Wound-up" instead an adjective "Nervous".
Nearby Words: nerve, nervy, nervously

Wound-up

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Nervous and wound-up are semantically related in exhausted and excited topic. You can use "Nervous" instead an adjective phrase "Wound-up".

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  • Cigarette of Anxiety Used in the original The Manchurian Candidate when Marco tries to light a cigarette on a train, but is so nervous and wound-up that he keeps fumbling the matches.
    Source: Cigarette of Anxiety
  • Literature / The Manchurian Candidate Cigarette of Anxiety: Marco tries to light a cigarette on a train, but is so nervous and wound-up that he keeps fumbling the matches.
    Source: Literature / The Manchurian Candidate
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