Fidgety

Definition: Fidgety

Fidgety

Adjective

1. Unable to relax or be still; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "itchy for excitement"; "a restless child".

Date "fidgety" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Synonyms: Fidgety

Synonyms: fretful (adj), itchy (adj), restless (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering; busy, busy as hen with one chicken.
Excitability	Unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing; Verb:
Fear	Afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt.
Irascibility	Adjective: irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable; thin-skinned; (sensitive); fretful, fidgety; on the fret.
Irresolution	Adjective: irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; Verb: off one's balance; at a loss; (uncertain).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fidgety

English words defined with "fidgety": Figent. (references)

Etymologies containing "fidgety": Figent. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I got, I say I got this boy as fidgety as a bubble dancer with a slow leak. (Strangled Eggs; writing credit: Tedd Pierce)
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Domain	Title
Books	Fidgety Fish (reference) Fidgety Frogs (Animal Allsorts) (reference) Princess Fidgety Feet (reference) The Case of the Fidgety Fox (High-Rise Private Eyes, 6) (reference) The Parents' Hyperactivity Handbook: Helping the Fidgety Child (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Fidgety Feet (reference) Fidgety Feet [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Hot under the collar; anxious; afraid; aghast; antsy; apprehensive; basket case; bugged; butterflies; careful; choked; clutched; concerned; disquieted; distressed; disturbed; dreading; fearful; fidgety; fretful; hacked; hyper; in suspense; jittery; jumpy.
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"Fidgety" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fidgety" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	41	53,521

Expressions using "fidgety": be fidgety ♦ fidgety phillip. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "fidgety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nervoz (edgy, excitable, irritable, jittery, nervous, neural, restless), i shqetësuar (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, distempered, distraught, distressed, disturbed, flurried, flustered, jittery, preoccupied, restless, troubled, troublous, uneasy, vexed, worried). (various references)

Arabic		‏متململ (nervous), ‏مسرف بالعناية بالتفاصيل, ‏نيق (dainty, finical, finicky, fussy, precise, prissy, sticky), ‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), ‏عصبي (apprehensive, edgy, fretful, jitterbug, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neuralgic, on edge, pithy, restless, spooky, testy, up the wall, uptight), ‏صعب الإرضاء (choosey, crabbed, dainty, difficult, finical). (various references)

Bulgarian		нервен (edgy, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neurotic, on edge, ratty, restless, snuffy, spooky, windy), притеснен (constrained, uneasy). (various references)

Chinese		手� . (various references)

Czech		neposedný (restive). (various references)

Farsi		ناراحت (Distraught, Tense, Uncomfortable, Uneasy, Unhandy, Upset), بیقرار (Agog, Hectic, Restive). (various references)

French		remuant, nerveux, inquiétant, difficile � satisfaire, agité. (various references)

German		zappelig (wriggly), unruhig (agitated, anxious, anxiously, bumpy, busy, choppy, fitful, fitfully, fretful, nervy, noisily, noisy, restive, restless, skittish, skittishly, troubled, uncomfortably, uneasily, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, unsteady). (various references)

Greek		νευρικόσ (edgy, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, petulant, self conscious), ανήσυχοσ (anxious, concerned, restive, restless, squirmy, uneasy, unquiet, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Hebrew		מעצבן (annoying, irritating, making nervous), עצב� י (edgy, fretful, in a stew, irritable, jerky, jumpy, liverish, nervous, peevish, short, snappish, testy, uptight). (various references)

Hungarian		nyugtalan (antsy, apprehensive, concerned, disconcerted, disquiet, fussed, hectic, jittery, pained, qualmish, restive, restless, ruffled, skittish, to be all of a sweat, to be flurried, to be in a sweat, uneasy, worried), türelmetlen (eager, have the needles, he wants patience, impatient, intolerant, restive, short, to be all of a sweat, to be in a sweat, to want patience), ideges (edgy, fazed, flustered, have butterflies in one's stomach, have cold feet, have the needles, het up, high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, migraine, nervous, nervy, neurotic, restive, restless, skittish, stroppy, to be in a tantrum, to be on edge, to feel nervous, to feel rum, to jitter, uptight, vexed). (various references)

Italian		irrequieto (restive, restless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		気忙しい (fussy, restless), それ迄 (all together, careless, en masse, extortion, feel chilly, in a body, in groups, in succession, like that, nervous, restless, rude, shiver, shudder, slovenly, sponging, such, that sort of, That's it, That's the end of the matter, thrill, uneasy, Until then). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きぜわしい (fussy, restless), そわそわ (nervous, restless, uneasy). (various references)

Manx		foostyragh (fussy). (various references)

Norwegian		være urolig. (various references)

Pig Latin		idgetyfay

Portuguese		inquieto (agitated, anxious, bustling, disquiet, edger, frantic, fretful, fussy, nervous, preoccupy, qualmish, restive, restless, troubled, uneasy, unquiet), bulir (monkey business, stir, tamper, touch), agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventide, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references)

Romanian		frãmântat (convulsion, fretful), nervos (fussy, hysterical, ill natured, impatient, impatiently, irritably, irritated, jumpy, nervous, nervously, nervy, neurotic, overwrought, sinewy), neliniştit (agitated, anxious, anxiously, broken, concerned, disquiet, restive, restless, sorrowful, troubled, uneasily, uneasy, unquiet, unquietly, upset, worried). (various references)

Russian		неугомонный (rambunctious, restless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uzvrpoljen. (various references)

Spanish		nervioso (edgy, excitable, excited, irritable, lively, nervate, nerve, nervous, nervy, on edge, responsive, sinewy, uncool, wiry, worked up), inquieto (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, disquiet, edgy, fretful, ill at ease, nervous, restless, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, worried), desasosegado (anxious, uneasy), azogado (quicksilvering, restless). (various references)

Swedish		rastlös (busy, footloose, restless), nervös (agitated, high strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervous, nervy, tense, unstrung, uptight). (various references)

Thai		หงุ�"หงิ�" (moody). (various references)

Turkish		yerinde duramayan (beany, restive, restless), kurtlu (grubby, maggoty, mity, vermiculated, wormy), kıpır kıpır (beany, humming, like a jack-in-the-box, restive, restless, restlessly, snappy). (various references)

Ukranian		невгамовний (immitigable, indomitable, rambunctious, restless, sleepless, unbridled, wild), метушливий (bustling, fussy, old womanish). (various references)

Vietnamese		sốt ruột, lo lắng (anxious, anxiously, preoccupied, thoughtful, troubled, unquiet), hay cựa quậy b�"n ch�"n, đứng ng�"i không yên. (various references)

Welsh		ffwdanus (flurried, fussy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Fidgety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diggety, Fadgey, feedeth, fidety, fidgent, fidgete, fidgetly, fidgetty, fidgit, fidgity, figet, findeth, flidget, fudgey, idget, Pidgely. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fidgety" (pronounced 'Fidg"et*y'): Buckety, Cometary, Covetously, Crotchety, Disquietly, interplanetary, Mahometry, Planetary, Poetastry, Poetry, Quietly, Rackety, rickety, suety, Tregetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-i-t-y"
	-1 letter: fidget, gifted.
	-2 letters: deify, deity, edify, fetid, fidge.
	-3 letters: defi, deft, defy, diet, dite, edgy, edit, gied, gift, tide, tidy, tied, yeti.
	-4 letters: dey, die, dig, dit, dye, eft, fed, fet, fey, fid, fie, fig, fit, ged, get, gey, gid, gie, git, ted, teg, tie, tye, yet, yid.
	-5 letters: de, ed, ef, et, id, if.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-g-i-t-y"
	+1 letter: giftedly.
	+4 letters: detoxifying, identifying.
	+5 letters: decertifying, delightfully, demystifying, denitrifying, devitrifying, farsightedly, typefounding.
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