anxious

Speech parts

1. anxious - Adjective

2. anxious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

uneasy restless concerned disturbed unquiet nervous solicitous dying tense afraid worried troubled alarmed fearful insecure
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Antonyms

pacific cavalier dauntless valiant undaunted blase
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Phrases with the word

be anxious anxious about anxious meeting anxious state irrationally anxious feeling anxious

Anagrams

Siouxan

Examples

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. Mignon McLaughlin

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert. Miley Cyrus

He who is anxious to secure the best tends to get stuck with the worst of the rest. Mexican Proverb

He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull. French Proverb

Anxious about the shoe, but disregarding the foot. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

anxiometric anxiostressive anxiotropic anxious about anxious bench anxious meeting