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Definition of Anxious

1. Adjective. Eagerly desirous. "Dying to hear who won"

2. Adjective. Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety. "An unquiet mind"

Definition of Anxious

1. a. 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.

Definition of Anxious

1. 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. ¹

2. Adjective. Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying;—applied to things; as, anxious labor. ¹

3. Adjective. Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anxious

1. full of anxiety [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anxious

anxiety disorder anxiety disorders anxiety dream anxiety hysteria anxiety neurosis anxiety reaction anxiety syndrome anxiety tension state anxio- anxiogenic

anxiolysis anxiolytic anxiolytic drug anxiolytically anxiolytics anxious (current term) anxious(p) anxious delirium anxiously anxiousness

anxiousnesses anxitie any any(a) any-and-all any-and-all bid any and all any longer any minute now any more

Literary usage of Anxious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"Brutus, like many great men, had a simple child-like nature, or he might have known that Antony was playing upon them all, and they are very anxious to get ..."

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