fidget

/'fidʤit/

Thân thiện

The child fidgets with a pencil during class.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To make small, restless, and often nervous movements, especially with the hands or feet, due to boredom, impatience, anxiety, or discomfort.
   • To behave or move in an agitated or uneasy manner.

2. Noun:

   • A person who fidgets; someone who is unable to remain still or quiet.
   • (Often plural: the fidgets) A state or feeling of restless agitation or nervousness.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:

  • The student began to fidget during the long lecture.
  • Please stop fidgeting with your pen; it's distracting.

• Noun:

  • He's such a fidget; he can't sit through a movie without getting up.
  • She got the fidgets while waiting for her interview to start.

Advanced Usage and Nuances

• "To fidget with something": To handle or touch something restlessly and repeatedly.
  • He tends to fidget with his keys when he's nervous.
• The plural noun form "the fidgets" is a common idiom describing a general state of nervous restlessness.
  • The suspense of the game gave me the fidgets.

Variants and Related Words

• Fidgety (adjective): Inclined to fidget; restless.
  • The children became fidgety after being indoors all day.
• Fidgetiness (noun): The quality or state of being fidgety.

Synonyms

• Verb: Squirm, wriggle, twitch, jiggle.
• Noun (for a person): Restless person.
• Noun (for the state): Restlessness, agitation, nervousness.

Antonyms

• Verb: Sit still, remain motionless, settle.
• Noun (for the state): Calm, composure, stillness.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion
   • he's got the fidgets
   • waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness

Verb

1. move restlessly
   • The child is always fidgeting in his seat

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fidgetiness
• restlessness