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FIDGETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fidgety mean? 

FIDGETY (adjective)
  The adjective FIDGETY has 1 sense:

1. nervous and unable to relaxplay

  Familiarity information: FIDGETY used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIDGETY (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Nervous and unable to relax

Synonyms:

antsy; fidgety; fretful; itchy

Context example:

a restless child

Similar:

tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)

Derivation:

fidget; fidgetiness (a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion)


 Context examples 


Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Do you often get restless and fidgety?

(GDS - Get Restless and Fidgety, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about whether an individual feels or felt restless, fidgety, or impatient.

(Have You Felt Restless, Fidgety, or Impatient, NCI Thesaurus)

Does he/she seem very tense or fidgety?

(NPI - Very Nervous, Worried, or Frightened for No Apparent Reason, NCI Thesaurus)

Or the opposite - being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual.

(PHQ-9 - Moving or Speaking Slowly or the Opposite being Fidgety or Restless, NCI Thesaurus)

She was now in an irritation as violent from delight, as she had ever been fidgety from alarm and vexation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Why, you see I got fidgety, and so did Grandpa.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Hannah says she thinks so, but she looks worried, and that makes me fidgety, answered Meg.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I should think she'd hate to poke herself where she isn't wanted, said Jo crossly, for she disliked the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted to enjoy herself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Jo liked his good breeding, and didn't mind having a laugh at Aunt March, so she gave him a lively description of the fidgety old lady, her fat poodle, the parrot that talked Spanish, and the library where she reveled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Jo read till her eyes gave out and she was sick of books, got so fidgety that even good-natured Laurie had a quarrel with her, and so reduced in spirits that she desperately wished she had gone with Aunt March.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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