fidgety

/ˈfɪdʒɪɾi/

/ˈfɪdʒɪti/

Someone who's fidgety is jittery, restless, or anxious. It's pretty common to be a little fidgety before a big test or a job interview.

A nervous airplane passenger might be fidgety, and a young child on the same flight could be fidgety simply because she's bored and itchy to move around. Fidgety comes from fidget, "move nervously," which in the late 1600s was the fidget, or the fidgets "uneasiness," from a now-obsolete verb, fidge, "move restlessly."

Definitions of fidgety

1. adjective

   nervous and unable to relax
   synonyms: antsy, fretful, itchy, twitchy

   tense

   in or of a state of physical or nervous tension