English Dictionary

nervy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnɜː.vi/

形容詞

アメリカ英語 イギリス英語 古語

(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen. / (Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. / (archaic) Strong; sinewy. / (technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.

日本語の意味

1. 神経が強い、度胸がある、厚かましい / 2. 神経質でそわそわした、落ち着かない / 3. （時代的な用法）強靭で鍛えられた、しなやかな / 4. （技術的用法）ジター（ノイズ等、不必要な信号特性を持つ）な

It was nervy of her to ask for a raise after only two weeks on the job.

彼女が入社してわずか2週間で給料の引き上げを要求するとは、度胸がある。

意味（1）

(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.

It takes a nervy man to promulgate such stuff, and Ted Nelson has made a career out of being nervy.

意味（2）

(Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.

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.

意味（3）

(archaic) Strong; sinewy.

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 […]

意味（4）

(technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.

nervier （ comparative ）

nerviest （ superlative ）