Scared vs. Nervous

Scaredadjective

Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.

Nervousadjective

Of sinews and tendons.

Scaredverb

simple past tense and past participle of scare

Nervousadjective

(obsolete) Full of sinews.

Scaredadjective

made afraid;

‘the frightened child cowered in the corner’; ‘too shocked and scared to move’;

Nervousadjective

(obsolete) Having strong or prominent sinews; sinewy, muscular.

Nervousadjective

(obsolete) Of a piece of writing, literary style etc.: forceful, powerful.

Nervousadjective

Of nerves.

Nervousadjective

Supplied with nerves; innervated.

Nervousadjective

Affecting the nerves or nervous system.

Nervousadjective

Nervose.

Nervousadjective

Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.

‘Being in a crowd of strangers makes me nervous.’;

Nervousadjective

Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.

Nervousadjective

Possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

Nervousadjective

Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.

Nervousadjective

Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.

Nervousadjective

Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.

‘Poor, weak, nervous creatures.’;

Nervousadjective

Sensitive; excitable; timid.

Nervousadjective

Apprehensive; as, a child nervous about his mother's reaction to his bad report card.

‘Our aristocratic class does not firmly protest against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics, because it is nervous about the land.’;

Nervousadjective

easily agitated;

‘quick nervous movements’;

Nervousadjective

causing or fraught with or showing anxiety;

‘spent an anxious night waiting for the test results’; ‘cast anxious glances behind her’; ‘those nervous moments before takeoff’; ‘an unquiet mind’;

Nervousadjective

of or relating to the nervous system;

‘nervous disease’; ‘neural disorder’;

Nervousadjective

excited in anticipation

Nervousadjective

unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)