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# nervously

«nervously» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a worried, slightly afraid way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (nervously)

### meaning for a pupil

In a worried, slightly afraid way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Common in stories to show a character's feelings: they laugh, look, or speak nervously. It tells the reader they feel anxious.

### examples

- She smiled nervously at her new class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/#x1)
- He waited nervously outside the head's office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/#x2)
- Alice nervously looked round for the White Rabbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/#x3)
- The Mole nervously entered the Wild Wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/#x4)
- The cat sniffed the dog nervously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/#x5)
- He laughed nervously before the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/#x6)

### note

From «nervous» + -ly. Not about the nerves of the body.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nervously» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nervously/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.