Usually means: Eagerly nervous or uneasy feeling.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. anxious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. anxious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anxious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anxious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anxious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anxious, anxious: Wordnik
  7. anxious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anxious: Wiktionary
  9. anxious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anxious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anxious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anxious: Dictionary.com
  13. anxious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. anxious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Anxious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Anxious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. anxious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. anxious: Rhymezone
  19. anxious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. anxious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. anxious: Free Dictionary
  22. anxious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. anxious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. anxious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. anxious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anxious: Legal dictionary

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  1. anxious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anxious: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anxious: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. anxious: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Nervous and worried.
▸ adjective:  Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown.
▸ adjective:  (of things) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying.
▸ adjective:  Earnestly desirous.

Similar:
troubled, apprehensive, eager, uneasy, unquiet, dying, nervous, fearful, antsy, excited, more...

Opposite:
calm, relaxed, serene, composed, tranquil

Types:
panic disorder, phobias, more...

Phrases:
anxious seat, anxious bench, Anxious People, anxious afraid, anxious feeling, more...

Adjectives:
test, little, non, emotional, eager, over, lafayette, motley, uneasy, downright, low

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Similar:
troubled, apprehensive, eager, uneasy, unquiet, dying, nervous, fearful, antsy, excited, more...

Opposite:
calm, relaxed, serene, composed, tranquil

Types:
panic disorder, phobias, more...

Phrases:
anxious seat, anxious bench, Anxious People, anxious afraid, anxious feeling, shouting in a worried and anxious tone, make someone anxious, most anxious, anxious person, more anxious, opposite of anxious, more...

Adjectives:
test, little, non, emotional, eager, over, lafayette, motley, uneasy, downright, low

Colors:
    gray,     dark blue,     black,     olive green,     charcoal,     maroon,     taupe,     burgundy,     forest green,     mauve



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