All fidgety synonyms
fidg·et·y
F f adj fidgety
- jumpy — subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.
- restless — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
- apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- impatient — not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
- uneasy — not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
- jittery — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- antsy — If someone is antsy, they are nervous or impatient.
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- jerky — characterized by jerks or sudden starts; spasmodic.
- nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nervy — brashly presumptuous or insolent; pushy: a nervy thing to say; a nervy trick to pull.
- on edge — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- restive — impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
- spooky — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- wired — made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.
- twitchy — twitching or tending to twitch.
- hyper — overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- on pins and needles — a tingly, prickly sensation in a limb that is recovering from numbness.
- spooked — Informal. a ghost; specter.
- unrestful — giving or conducive to rest.
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
adjective fidgety
adverb fidgety
- nail-biting — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.