[ UK /fˈɪd‍ʒɪti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. nervous and unable to relax
    a restless child
    a constant fretful stamping of hooves
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How To Use fidgety In A Sentence

  • ‘Irksome, loopily affectionate, on tenterhooks, fidgety’… ran Emily's immediate assessment of her Husband's ‘welcome-back-to-the-big-city’ mood.
  • Anon some wrinkled, fidgety, cogitative being in human form would add a new volume to some slope or tower of the monstrous omni-patulent mass, or some sharp-glancing youth, with teeth set unevenly on edge, would pull out a volume, look greedily and half-believingly for a few moments, return it, and slink away. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
  • I whispered to my four-year-old, an often fidgety theatregoer who was gripped throughout. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was always fidgety and nervous before boarding a plane. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
  • As the second act journey took us to tea parties in Arabia, she grew fidgety and bored. Christianity Today
  • A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural.
  • This made her restless and fidgety. Wives and Daughters
  • He has a kind of winsome smile and frequently jogs around the set, running from one side of the lawn to the other, and it doesn't feel like the obnoxiousness of a fidgety adult but the buoyancy of a wide-eyed kid. The House Next Door
  • He was fidgety and in a dream world when being given instruction in a group.
  • My sister and my mother are the opposite - they are nervous and fidgety.
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