 anxious |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried | |
| Synonyms: | apprehensive | |
| Examples: | "anxious parents" "anxious about her job" "not used to a city and anxious about small things" "felt apprehensive about the consequences" |
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| Related terms: | uneasy | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] (colloquial) eagerly desirous | |
| Synonyms: | dying | |
| Examples: | "anxious to see the new show at the museum" "dying to hear who won" |
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| Related terms: | colloquialism eager | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | |
| Synonyms: | nervous unquiet uneasy | |
| Examples: | "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results" "cast anxious glances behind her" "those nervous moments before takeoff" "an unquiet mind" |
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| Related terms: | troubled | |
| Similar spelling: |
anxiously Angus anchusa anisogamy Angus_Og |
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