nervous
- anxious - irritated - annoyed
‘nervous’
If you are nervous, you are rather frightened about something that you are going to do or experience.
My daughter is nervous about starting school.
‘anxious’
If you are worried about something that might happen to someone else, don't say that you are ‘nervous’. Say that you are anxious.
It's time to be going home – your mother will be anxious.
I had to deal with calls from anxious relatives.
➜ See anxious
‘irritated’ and ‘annoyed’
If something makes you angry and impatient because you cannot stop it continuing, don't say that it makes you ‘nervous’. Say that you are irritated or annoyed by it.
Perhaps they were irritated by the sound of crying.
I was annoyed by his questions.