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| Main Entry: |
fidget
 [fij-it] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move restlessly |
| Synonyms: | be antsy, be hyper, be nervous, be on pins and needles, be spooked, be wired, bustle, chafe, fiddle, fret, fuss, hitch, jiggle, jitter, joggle, jump, play, squirm, stir, toss, trifle, twiddle, twitch, wiggle, worry |
| Antonyms: | be still, relax, rest |
| Main Entry: | fiddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mess with, tinker |
| Synonyms: | dabble, doodle, feel, fidget, finger, fool, handle, interfere, mess, mess around, monkey*, play, potter, puddle, putter, tamper, touch, toy, trifle, twiddle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jiggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce up and down |
| Synonyms: | agitate, bob, fidget, jerk, jig, jigger, jog, joggle, shake, shimmer, shimmy, twitch, vellicate, wiggle |
Example Sentences
- Senses wandering, the sick would chatter and fidget restlessly, plucking at their bedclothes.
- Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship.
- The hair pulling has since stopped, but she continues to fidget with her brown locks.
| Main Entry: | jitters |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nervousness |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, dither, fidgets, heebie-jeebies, jumps, nerves, shakes, shivers, tenseness, willies |
| Antonyms: | calmness |
| Main Entry: | nervousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
| Synonyms: | agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, collectedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | play |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce music |
| Synonyms: | blow, bow, drum, execute, fiddle, fidget, finger, operate, pedal, perform, render, tickle, work |
| Antonyms: | listen |
| Main Entry: | trifle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | toy with; mess around |
| Synonyms: | amuse oneself, be insincere, coquet, dabble, dally, dawdle, dilly-dally, doodle, fidget, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, fritter, futz around, horse around, idle, indulge in, lead on, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess with, misuse, monkey, monkey with, palter, philander, play, play games with, play with, potter, putter, squander, string along, toy, twiddle, use up, wanton, waste, waste time, wink at |
| Main Entry: | ants in one's pants |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fidgetiness |
| Synonyms: | heebie-jeebies, itching, restlessness, the fidgets |
| Main Entry: | all-overs |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jitter |
| Synonyms: | fidget, jump, nervousness, tremble, uneasiness |
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