nervously

English

Etymology

From nervous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

nervously (comparative more nervously, superlative most nervously)

1. In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.

   He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.

   • 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 171:

     Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.

Translations

in a nervous manner

• Catalan: nerviosament (ca)
• Danish: nervøst
• Esperanto: nervoze
• Finnish: hermostuneesti (fi)
• French: nerveusement (fr)
• Galician: nerviosamente
• Georgian: ნერვიულად (nerviulad)
• German: nervös (de), erregbar (de), gereizt (de), hektisch (de), unruhig (de)
• Italian: nervosamente (it)
• Norman: nèrveusement
• Polish: nerwowo (pl)
• Portuguese: nervosamente
• Russian: не́рвно (ru) (nérvno)
• Slovak: nervózne
• Spanish: nerviosamente (es)