Emotions
Synonyms for nervous
The synonym for nervous recorded in this bank is anxious, in the sense "causing or fraught with or showing anxiety". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for nervous
- anxiousadjective, in the sense "causing or fraught with or showing anxiety"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and nervous carries one sense so far.
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Those nervous moments before takeoff.
The true synonym
anxious
Same sentence, swapped: Those anxious moments before takeoff.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for nervous in the sentence quoted.
- spooky
- neural
- driving
Where nervous turns up in the game
nervous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where nervous is the trap
- impoliteadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is disrespectful, in the sense "not observing accepted standards of good manners", so nervous is there to be ruled out.
- willingadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is eager, in the sense "ready and glad to do or give something without needing persuasion", and nervous is on the board beside it.
- affableadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is amiable, in the sense "friendly, pleasant, and easy to talk to", so nervous is there to be ruled out.
- effectiveadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is good, in the sense "exerting force or influence", with nervous sitting one tile away.
Play nervous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nervous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other emotions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. nervous carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.