anxious
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anxious/ˈaŋkʃəs/
▶adjective
- 1 experiencing worry, nervousness, or unease.
- 2 very eager and concerned to do something or for something to happen.
– derivatives
anxiously adverb,
anxiousness noun.
anxiously adverb,
anxiousness noun.
'anxious' also found in these Oxford entries:
afraid
- alarm
- anxiety
- apprehension
- boggle
- cat
- chary
- concerned
- cool
- defensive
- disquiet
- disturb
- flurried
- fret
- fretful
- hypochondriac
- jumpy
- move
- nervous
- nervy
- oppress
- overanxious
- perturb
- relax
- relieve
- social climber
- solicit
- solicitous
- stew
- suspense
- sweat
- trouble
- uneasy
- unquiet
- unsettle
- untroubled
- valetudinarian
- windy
- worry
- wrought
