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nervously

/nɜːrˈvɒsli/ adverb · British & US

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What does nervously mean?

adverb

Feeling or showing anxiety or nervousness; in a nervous manner.

Example

"She spoke nervously to the large audience."

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Words that share this root

nervous anxiety unease apprehension

What's another word for nervously?

anxiously uneasily apprehensively timidly fearfully tremulously

What's the opposite of nervously?

confidently calmly bravely

Rhymes with nervously

curiously merely seriously verily