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tweaky

1 9.5

Feeling nervous and unable to sit still

adjective
/ˈtwiːki/

NSFW

: nervioso

After drinking too much coffee, I felt overly tweaky and couldn't sit still.

Examples

My God, just writing about it is making me tweaky.

Blog text (13)
She became increasingly tweaky as the deadline approached, constantly checking her work.
His tweaky behavior made it hard for him to focus during the meeting.

Synonyms

fussy

vstweaky

28 3.9

Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things

is more about nervous agitation and intense small detail focus

fidgety

vstweaky

9 4.8

Unable to stay still because you feel nervous

includes restlessness plus excessive focus on small details

twiddly

vstweaky

1 8.8

Making small nervous movements with the fingers or hands

is broader, covering general nervous agitation and overfocus on tiny details

finickety about

vstweaky

9.1

Being very picky about small details when choosing or arranging things

is more about nervous agitation and compulsive attention to small details

Antonyms

calm

680 1.0

Not showing strong feelings and being very still

relaxed

216 1.0

Calm and not worried

Compounds

tweaky response

Informal

9.4

An odd or slightly strange answer that confuses people

How Nervous

panicked

54 4.6

tweaky

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1 9.5

agitated

84 4.1

anxious

230 2.7

nervous

∞ 1.3

uneasy

92 3.2

Surface Forms

tweaky positive

Morphology

tweaky = tweak (semi-transparent) = tweak + y

The adjective is built from 'tweak' but relies on a colloquial/slang sense ('to tweak' meaning to behave erratically or be affected by stimulants) that may not be obvious to learners; the relation is present but not fully predictable.

Etymology

Tweaky can also mean 'nervous' or 'fidgety'. A helpful way to remember this is to think of tweak as a quick small move, like the word twitchy, so tweaky describes someone who is jumpy or cannot sit still.