MEANING
1. To make small restless movements, often from nervousness, discomfort, or impatience.
2. A small restless movement.
3. A person who habitually makes restless movements.
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Words that belong together
- fidget in a chair
- fidget with a pen
On the page
She fidgeted with the pen.
He began to fidget in the chair.
The child fidgeted while the adults talked.
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Word forms
- Base
- fidget
- Past tense
- fidgeted
- Past participle
- fidgeted
- Present participle
- fidgeting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- fidget
- Present continuous
- am/is/are fidgeting
- Present perfect
- have/has fidgeted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been fidgeting
- Past
- fidgeted
- Past continuous
- was/were fidgeting
- Past perfect
- had fidgeted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been fidgeting
- Future
- will fidget
- Future continuous
- will be fidgeting
- Future perfect
- will have fidgeted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been fidgeting
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Usage notes
Primary category: fear. Forms: fidget; fidgets; fidgeted; fidgeted; fidgeting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: fidgets.
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