Anxious

ahd-5
  • adjective. Uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter; worried.
  • adjective. Attended with, showing, or causing anxiety.
  • adjective. Eagerly or earnestly desirous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of anxiety or solicitude; greatly troubled or solicitous, especially about something future or unknown; being in painful suspense: applied to persons.
  • Attended with, proceeding from, or manifesting solicitude or uneasiness: applied to things: as, anxious forebodings; anxious labor.
  • Earnestly desirous or solicitous: as, anxious to please; anxious to do right.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons.
  • adjective. Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things.
  • adjective. Earnestly desirous.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, especially respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense;—applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.
  • adjective. Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying;—applied to things; as, anxious labor.
  • adjective. Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. eagerly desirous
  • adjective. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
    • Word Usage
    "Jack had pulled the van up against the curb and was sitting in the passenger seat, his expression anxious, his cell phone in his hand, and a wide-eyed Eerie in his lap."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    bold  calm  careless  confident  
    cross-reference
    apprehensive  timid  
    Equivalent
    eager  troubled  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    eager  grateful  nervous  thoughtful  uneasy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aching  aghast  agitated  agog  alacritous  
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