All jittery synonyms
jit·ter·y
J j adjective jittery
- 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.
- jumpy — subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.
- on edge — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- stressed out — afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.
- frazzled — worn-out; fatigued: a party that left us frazzled.
- strung up — tense, anxious
- fidgety — restless; impatient; uneasy.
- skittish — apt to start or shy: a skittish horse.
- anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
- apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- excitable — Responding rather too readily to something new or stimulating; too easily excited.
- panicky — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- restless — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
- shaky — tending to shake or tremble.
- spooked — Informal. a ghost; specter.
- tense — in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
- uneasy — not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
- uptight — tense, nervous, or jittery.
- 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.
- on pins and needles — a tingly, prickly sensation in a limb that is recovering from numbness.
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- trembling — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
adverb jittery
- nail-biting — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- hyper — overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.