as in twitchy
making jerky or restless movements
I get too fidgety to sit after a few minutes in a waiting room
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Recent Examples of fidgety
Before Globe Santa and after Globe Santa: One showing a bored, fidgety child and harried mom; the other, a happy child and happy mom.
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Ellen Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
Often encircled by his rapt yet fidgety students, Dance Teacher Pat (Michael Wood) is a zealot who saddles his team with a choreographed tribute to Gandhi.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
Our planet is a shifting mass of molten rock that continually migrates beneath the crust; even the deep mantle and its overlying upper mantle are fidgety, causing earthquakes.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2022
The man was very fidgety and could not stop moving around.
—cleveland, 1 May 2022
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Ellen Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
Often encircled by his rapt yet fidgety students, Dance Teacher Pat (Michael Wood) is a zealot who saddles his team with a choreographed tribute to Gandhi.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
Our planet is a shifting mass of molten rock that continually migrates beneath the crust; even the deep mantle and its overlying upper mantle are fidgety, causing earthquakes.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2022
The man was very fidgety and could not stop moving around.
—cleveland, 1 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fidgety
Adjective
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Seeing that marmot offshoot with his twitchy little nose and beady eyes, clutched by an obscure local bureaucrat, conjures hope for the year to come.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Keret, for all his twitchy volubility, seemed exhausted.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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The final 20 minutes of this episode consists of almost nonstop action-horror, as multiple humans wander through the dark wreckage in and around the Maginot, before getting attacked by various squirmy bloodletters.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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People should be joyful, not worried.—
Evan Webeck,
Mercury News,
7 Sep. 2025
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He’s not focused on the economy, which most Americans are worried about.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Danni-Elle Townsend, who’s made a solid impression in PPA internationals this year, was upset in the first round by 43-yr old qualifier and eventual Bronze medalist from Japan Rika Fujiwara, a former WTA tennis pro who toured for more than 20 years before retiring from Tennis in 2020.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Mourners, many of whom were visibly upset and wearing Walmart uniforms, placed electric candles at the memorial.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Against Świątek, in two nervous moments, one of them on match point, net cords had given her safe harbor.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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The district’s disparate parts would be connected largely by two-lane highways cutting through steep slopes of places such as the Modoc National Forest, where nervous drivers must beware of a lack of guardrails.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Maddie is talented, warm, funny and kind but also anxious, plagued with low self-esteem cultivated by a traumatic childhood.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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The other may be unsure, though not opposed, but anxious about leaving family and community.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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From #traviskelce popping the question after New Heights to #taylorswift getting antsy and all the lil bits n pieces in between INCLUDING them wanting to….—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Nothing to get antsy about now.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Fidgety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fidgety. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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