keyed up

The phrase “keyed up” has 2 syllables: keyed up

It's pronounced as /kiːd ʌp/


What is synonym and antonym for keyed up?

In the thesaurus, “keyed up” has 82 synonyms and 23 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for keyed up along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for keyed up

  • afire
  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • agitated
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • aquiver
  • atingle
  • atwitter
  • bothered
  • concerned
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • edgy
  • excited
  • feverish
  • fidgety
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • goosey
  • heated
  • hectic
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • hung up
  • hyped-up
  • hyper
  • hyperactive
  • hyperexcited
  • hypertense
  • ill at ease
  • in a lather
  • insecure
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • misgiving
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • overactive
  • overexcited
  • overwrought
  • perturbed
  • preoccupied
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • restless
  • shook-up
  • skittish
  • spooky
  • stewing
  • tense
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • wired
  • worried

Antonyms for keyed up

  • calm
  • collected
  • composed
  • confident
  • controlled
  • cool
  • coolheaded
  • easy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • nerveless
  • placid
  • relaxed
  • self-assured
  • self-confident
  • self-controlled
  • serene
  • sure
  • tranquil
  • undisturbed
  • unperturbed
  • unshaken
  • untroubled
  • unworried

Meanings of keyed up

  • adjective
    1. Nervous; worried.

Example Sentences

  • After weeks of anticipation, the team was keyed up for the championship game.
  • She was keyed up with excitement as she prepared for her first solo performance.
  • The students were keyed up about the upcoming field trip to the science museum.
  • Despite his efforts to remain calm, his nerves were keyed up on the day of the big presentation.
  • The audience was keyed up with enthusiasm as they waited for the concert to begin.

On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to keyed up, such as: afire, aflutter, aggrieved, agitated, antsy, anxious, apprehensive.

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edgy

  • activating
  • aflutter
  • aggravating
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  • apprehensive
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  • galling
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  • goosey
  • ground
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  • hinky
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  • hypertense
  • ill at ease
  • impatient
  • incendiary
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  • inspirational
  • inspiring
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  • jabbing
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  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keen
  • keyed up
  • knifelike
  • lacerating
  • maddening
  • misgiving
  • motivating
  • motivational
  • motivative
  • nervous
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  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • overstrung
  • perturbed
  • pesky
  • piercing
  • piquing
  • pointed
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  • provocative
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  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • quickening
  • restive
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  • scratching
  • sharp
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  • skittish
  • spikey
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  • stabbing
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  • stimulating
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  • undone
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  • unstrung
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • uptight
  • vexatious
  • vexed
  • vexing
  • vitalizing
  • whetted
  • worried

ill at ease

  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • awkward
  • bothered
  • concerned
  • discomfited
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • doubtful
  • edgy
  • faltering
  • fidgety
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • goosey
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • insecure
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keyed up
  • misgiving
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • out of place
  • perturbed
  • preoccupied
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • restless
  • self-conscious
  • shook-up
  • shy
  • skittish
  • spooky
  • stewing
  • suspicious
  • tense
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • uncomfortable
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unrelaxed
  • unsettled
  • unstrung
  • unsure
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • worried

jittery

  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • bothered
  • concerned
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • dramatic
  • edgy
  • emotional
  • emotionalistic
  • excitable
  • fiddle-footed
  • fidgety
  • flibbertigibbety
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • goosey
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • histrionic
  • hot-blooded
  • hung up
  • hyper
  • hyperactive
  • hyperexcitable
  • hyperkinetic
  • hypersensitive
  • hypertense
  • ill at ease
  • insecure
  • intense
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • jumpy
  • keyed up
  • melodramatic
  • mercurial
  • misgiving
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • panicky
  • perturbable
  • perturbed
  • preoccupied
  • prickly
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • quivering
  • restless
  • sensitive
  • shaky
  • shook-up
  • skittery
  • skittish
  • soulful
  • spasmodic
  • spooked
  • spooky
  • stewing
  • temperamental
  • tense
  • testy
  • touchy
  • trembling
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unstable
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • volatile
  • volcanic
  • worried

nervous

  • aflutter
  • afraid
  • aggrieved
  • agitated
  • agitating
  • annoyed
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • awkward
  • basket case
  • bothered
  • bothersome
  • concerned
  • creepy
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • disquieted
  • disquieting
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • disturbed
  • disturbing
  • dithery
  • dramatic
  • edgy
  • embarrassing
  • emotional
  • emotionalistic
  • excitable
  • fiddle-footed
  • fidgety
  • fitful
  • flibbertigibbety
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • fraught
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • fussy
  • goosey
  • hairy
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • histrionic
  • hot-blooded
  • hung up
  • hyper
  • hyperactive
  • hyperexcitable
  • hyperkinetic
  • hypersensitive
  • hypertense
  • hysterical
  • ill at ease
  • insecure
  • intense
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keyed up
  • melodramatic
  • mercurial
  • misgiving
  • nail-biting
  • nerve-racking
  • nerve-wracking
  • nervy
  • neurotic
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • overwrought
  • perturbable
  • perturbed
  • preoccupied
  • prickly
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • querulous
  • restive
  • restless
  • ruffled
  • sensitive
  • shaky
  • shook-up
  • shrinking
  • shy
  • skittery
  • skittish
  • snappish
  • solicitous
  • soulful
  • spasmodic
  • spooked
  • spooky
  • stewing
  • strained
  • taut
  • temperamental
  • tense
  • testy
  • timid
  • timorous
  • touchy
  • troubled
  • troublesome
  • twitchy
  • twittered
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unnerving
  • unquiet
  • unrestful
  • unsettling
  • unstable
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • volatile
  • volcanic
  • weak
  • wired
  • worried
  • worrisome

nervy

  • absurd
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • arch
  • asinine
  • assertive
  • atwitter
  • audacious
  • balmy
  • bluff
  • blunt
  • bold
  • bold-faced
  • bothered
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brassbound
  • brassy
  • brave
  • brazen
  • brazen-faced
  • cheeky
  • cocksure
  • cocky
  • concerned
  • courageous
  • crass
  • crazy
  • crude
  • curt
  • cute
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • defiant
  • disquieted
  • disrespectful
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • dumb
  • edgy
  • emboldened
  • enterprising
  • facetious
  • fearless
  • fidgety
  • flighty
  • flip
  • flippant
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • foreboding
  • forward
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • free-swinging
  • fresh
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • gadarene
  • gallant
  • goosey
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • hotheaded
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill at ease
  • impertinent
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • insane
  • insecure
  • insolent
  • intrepid
  • irrational
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keyed up
  • lionhearted
  • lippy
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • misgiving
  • moronic
  • mouthy
  • nerved
  • nervous
  • nutty
  • obsessed
  • obtrusive
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • pert
  • perturbed
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • preoccupied
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rash
  • reckless
  • restless
  • rude
  • sassy
  • saucy
  • scatterbrained
  • shameless
  • shook-up
  • silly
  • skittish
  • smart
  • smart-aleck
  • smart-alecky
  • spirited
  • spooky
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • stewing
  • stout
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  • stupid
  • swashbuckling
  • tense
  • thoughtless
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • unabashed
  • unafraid
  • unblushing
  • undaunted
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnecessary
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unreasonable
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • uptight
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vexed
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • wise
  • witless
  • worried

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