Nervous vs Uncertain - What's the difference?
nervous | uncertain |
(obscure) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
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Easily agitated or alarmed; on edge or edgy.
Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
Relating to or affecting the nerves.
Not certain; unsure.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Not known for certain; questionable.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Unpredictable or capricious.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!
As adjectives the difference between nervous and uncertain
is that nervous is of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful while uncertain is not certain; unsure.nervous
English
(wikipedia nervous)Adjective
(en adjective)- the central nervous system