nervoso
Portuguese, noun/neʁ.ˈvo.zu/
nervoso is spelled N-E-R-V-O-S-O (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,671st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nervoso is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a person who is often nervous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does nervoso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
nervous (easily agitated)
- 2
nervous; anxious
- 3
nervous (relating to the nerves)
- 4
colloquialneedlessly angry
noun
- 1
masculinea person who is often nervous
- 2
colloquialmasculinea person who is often needlessly angry
- 3
colloquialmasculinea nervous feeling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. referente a nervos 2. que tem nervos 3. vigoroso 4. exaltado
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nervoso
- nervosa feminine
- nervosos masculine plural
- nervosas feminine plural
- metaphonic feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nervoso?
- Brazil /neʁ.ˈvo.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nervoso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nervoso in Portuguese?
nervoso appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).