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fidgety

/ˈfɪd͡ʒɪti/

fidgety adjective: having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.

Adjective

fidgety (comparative fidgetier, superlative fidgetiest)

  1. Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.
    • I did not feel sea-sick at all. But as the days passed, I became fidgety. I felt shy even in speaking to the steward. […]1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiii
    • A fidgety child can easily knock over the drink and burn the two of you.1999, Laurie Waldstein, Leslie Zinberg, The Pink and Blue Toddler and Preschooler Pages
    Synonyms:
    antsy, fretful, itchy

fidgety meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

fidgety in Tamil

படபடப்பு

fidgety in Marathi

having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget
चुळबळ्या cuḷbaḷyā, चुळबुळ करणारा cuḷbuḷ karṇārā

fidgety in Urdu

بےچین, مضطرب

fidgety in Bengali

ছটফটে, অস্থির
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fidgety in Malayalam
പടപടപ്പുള്ള, അസ്വസ്ഥ, അക്ഷാന്ത, അടക്കമില്ലാത്ത

Synonyms of fidgety

Forms of fidgety

comparativefidgetier
superlativefidgetiest
alternative form (archaic)fidgetty

Origin of fidgety

From fidget + -y.

Words formed from fidgety

Questions about fidgety

What does fidgety mean?
Fidgety means having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.
What is fidgety in Tamil?
Fidgety in Tamil is படபடப்பு. See Fidgety meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fidgety?
Fidgety is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fidgety?
Fidgety is pronounced /ˈfɪd͡ʒɪti/.

Words near fidgety in the dictionary

  1. fidgetters
  2. fidgettiness
  3. fidgetting
  4. fidgettings
  5. fidgetty
  6. fidgety
  7. fidging
  8. fidibus
  9. fidibuses
  10. fidicinal
  11. fidlam ben

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fidgety (page history and authors); fidgety (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fidgety (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fidgety (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fidgety (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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