nervy

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɜː.vi/    美 /ˈnɝ.vi/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having nerve; bold; brazen. US
    — It takes a nervy man to promulgate such stuff, and Ted Nelson has made a career out of being nervy.
  2. Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. UK
    — Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenalin rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham.
  3. Strong; sinewy. archaic
    — And, for those simple times, his garments were / A chieftain-king's: beneath his breast, half bare, / Was hung a silver bugle, and between / His nervy knees there lay a boar-spear keen […]
  4. Jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.

词形变化

nervier comparative nerviest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
nervily nerviness
相关词
nervous

词源

Etymology tree
English nerve
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English nervy
From nerve + -y.
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