Definitions for: Anxious

[adj] mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
[adj] causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"

Webster (1913) Definition: Anx"ious ([a^][ng]k"sh[u^]s), a. [L. anxius, fr.
angere to cause pain, choke; akin to Gr. 'a`gchein to choke.
See Anger.]
1. 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.

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

The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far
off all anxious cares. --Milton.

3. Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.

He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve
and at those who are eager for reform. --Macaulay.

Note: Anxious is followed by for, about, concerning, etc.,
before the object of solicitude.

Syn: Solicitous; careful; uneasy; unquiet; restless;
concerned; disturbed; watchful.

Synonyms: apprehensive, nervous, troubled, uneasy, unquiet

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