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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Since I get jittery just looking at roller coasters, I don’t know why my mind went to space so quickly.
IMAGINING A FIVE-STAR HOTEL AMONG THE STARSLIZ LANGLEYAPRIL 8, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Lab experiments dropping laser-cooled antiatoms — instead of warm, jittery ones — into free fall could provide a clearer view of gravity’s effects.
NEWLY MADE LASER-COOLED ANTIMATTER COULD TEST FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PHYSICSMARIA TEMMINGAPRIL 5, 2021SCIENCE NEWS
“Loving” engaged with some of the same themes as “Play Misty for Me,” including jittery sexual anxiety and the treacherous tectonics of shifting gender roles.
JESSICA WALTER AND GEORGE SEGAL PERSONIFIED A TIME WHEN MOVIES GREW UPANN HORNADAYMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Since the Skye excitement everyone is inclined to be jittery and nerves are stretched tightly.
GREENER THAN YOU THINKWARD MOORE
And I'll admit that I was as jittery as a hen on a hot stove until we got this Fortress off the ground, and into the air.
DAVE DAWSON AT TRUKROBERT SYDNEY BOWEN
Chub flushed, knowing full well that reference was being made to the jittery way he had talked about ghosts.
DAN CARTER AND THE CUB HONORMILDRED A. WIRT
But before he could come near enough, Pal charged the blackbirds and sent them in jittery flight back to the trees.
TRADING JEFF AND HIS DOGJAMES ARTHUR KJELGAARD
Mrs. RVS started to get jittery at about ten mps away from home, and above fifteen, she was trembling steadily.
SLINGSHOTIRVING W. LANDE
There is a certain, ever-present segment of any public, whose jittery imagination is a constant fuse-cap for panic.
STAMPED CAUTIONRAYMOND ZINKE GALLUN
You see, it sort of riled me—I warn't used to the ways of Jittery swells.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
WORDS RELATED TO JITTERY
- afraid
- aghast
- antsy
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bugged
- butterflies
- careful
- choked
- clutched
- concerned
- disquieted
- distressed
- disturbed
- dreading
- fearful
- fidgety
- fretful
- hacked
- hyper
- in a state
- in a tizzy
- in suspense
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervous
- nervy
- overwrought
- restless
- scared
- shaking
- shaky
- shivery
- shook up
- shot to pieces
- solicitous
- spooked
- strung out
- sweating bullets
- taut
- troubled
- uneasy
- unglued
- unquiet
- uptight
- watchful
- wired
- worried sick
- wreck
- afraid
- alarmed
- biting nails
- butterflies
- concerned
- disquieted
- doubtful
- feel in bones
- foreboding
- frozen
- get vibes
- have a hunch
- have cold feet
- have funny feeling
- have stage fright
- hung up
- in a cold sweat
- in a dither
- in a sweat
- jellyfish
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mistrustful
- running scared
- scaredy-cat
- shaky
- stiff
- suspicious
- troubled
- uncertain
- uneasy
- uptight
- weak
- worried
- worried sick
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- caitiff
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- paper tiger
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
- afflicted
- agitated
- all torn up
- antsy
- anxious
- basket case
- bothered
- bugged
- bummed out
- bundle of nerves
- concerned
- cut up
- discombobulated
- disconsolate
- distracted
- distrait
- distraught
- dragged
- exercised
- fidgety
- harassed
- hyper
- in a stew
- in a tizzy
- inconsolable
- jittery
- jumpy
- miffed
- peeved
- perturbed
- ripped
- saddened
- shaky
- shook
- shook up
- shot down
- spooked
- strung out
- tormented
- troubled
- unconsolable
- unglued
- up the wall
- uptight
- wired
- worried
- wrecked
- wretched
- aflutter
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- anxious
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- hesitant
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervous
- nervy
- panicky
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- solicitous
- spineless
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- tremulous
- uneasy
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.