About The Word Anxious
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Anxious
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What's The Definition Of Anxious?
[adj] mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
[adj] causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" Synonyms | Synonyms for Anxious: apprehensive | nervous | troubled | uneasy | unquiet Related Terms | Find terms related to Anxious: aching | aghast | agitated | agog | alacritous | alarmed | all agog | all-overish | anguished | animated | annoyed | antsy | antsy-pantsy | anxioused up | apprehensive | ardent | athirst | avid | beset | bored | bothered | breathless | bursting to | careful | cautious | chafing | cheerless | concerned | depressed | desirous | disgusted | disquieted | distressed | disturbed | eager | edgy | embarrassed | enthusiastic | excited | fearful | foreboding | forward | fretful | fretting | frightened | full of life | grim | harassed | hasty | hopped-up | ill at ease | impatient | impetuous | importunate | in a lather | in a pucker | in a stew | in a sweat | in suspense | inconvenienced | irked | jittery | joyless | keen | keyed-up | lively | longing | misgiving | nauseated | nauseous | nervous | on edge | on tenterhooks | on tiptoe | overanxious | overapprehensive | panting | perturbed | plagued | pleasureless | pressing | prey to malaise | prompt | put to it | puzzled | qualmish | qualmy | quick | quivering | raring to | ready | ready and willing | repelled | restive | restless | revolted | sad | scared | scary | sickened | solicitous | sore beset | spirited | squirming | squirmy | strained | suffering angst | suspenseful | taut | tense | terrified | thirsty | troubled | uncertain | uneasy | unfulfilled | ungratified | unhappy | unpatient | unquiet | unsatisfied | upset | urgent | vexed | vital | vivacious | vivid | wary | watchful | with bated breath | with muscles tense | worried | yearning | zealous | zestful See Also | Anxious In Webster's Dictionary \Anx"ious\ ([a^][ng]k"sh[u^]s), a. [L. anxius, fr.
angere to cause pain, choke; akin to Gr. 'a`gchein to choke.
See {Anger}.]
1. Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or
solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown;
being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as,
anxious for the issue of a battle.
2. Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; --
applied to things; as, anxious labor.
The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far
off all anxious cares. --Milton.
3. Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve
and at those who are eager for reform. --Macaulay.
Note: Anxious is followed by for, about, concerning, etc.,
before the object of solicitude.
Syn: Solicitous; careful; uneasy; unquiet; restless;
concerned; disturbed; watchful.
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