Associations to the word «Nervously»

Wiktionary

NERVOUSLY, adverb. In a nervous manner; with nervosity; in a way that displays nervousness.

Dictionary definition

NERVOUSLY, adverb. In an anxiously nervous manner; "we watched the stock market nervously".
NERVOUSLY, adverb. With nervous excitement; "our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats