anxious

Adjective Satellite

• eagerly desirous
  • "anxious to see the new show at the museum"
• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
  • "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"
  • "cast anxious glances behind her"

Adj

• Nervous and worried.
• Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown.
• Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying.
• Earnestly desirous.

Adjective

• Experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness.

Examples

• All the voters were anxious to hear the election result.
• anxious labor
• He is anxious to please, so you can count on him.
• He was anxious to play his X before his opponent could block the triple-word score.
• I could tell she was anxious as she was biting her nails.
• She was anxious to hear how her test results were.
• There was an anxious wait before the results were revealed.

Synonyms

dying, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet, angstful, concerned, disturbed, fraught, nerve-wracking, restless, solicitous, worrisome

Anagrams of anxious