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adjective

Anxious adj.

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.

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."

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. "He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform." Note: Anxious is followed by for, about, concerning, etc., before the object of solicitude.

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

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Etymology of 'Anxious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Anxious" Quotes from Famous Books

... where Stepan Arkadyevitch's things were carried also—a bag, a gun in a case, a satchel for cigars. Leaving him there to wash and change his clothes, Levin went off to the counting house to speak about the ploughing and clover. Agafea Mihalovna, always very anxious for the credit of the house, met him in the hall with inquiries ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... 'ope you're all just as anxious to 'ear it as I am myself, I will not stand between you and the lecturer no longer, but will now call upon ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... devil sees it all, and a good many people are only too glad to see it; but the dear Father will not see it. He covers it with His love and the precious blood of His dear atoning Son. Such a wonderful love ought surely to make us gentler to others, and more anxious to cause our Father less need to hide His loving eyes from ...

— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson

... — N. expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight &c 510. contemplation, prospection^, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon, vista; destiny &c 152. suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity &c 455; anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus. hope &c 858; trust &c (belief) 484; auspices &c (prediction) 511; assurance, confidence, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... When I first discovered this disagreeable fact, I was in a filthy and obscure lane rather than street, which I did not remember having ever honoured with my presence before. While I was pausing in the vain hope and anxious endeavour to shape out some imaginary chart—some "map of the mind," by which to direct my bewildered course—I heard a confused noise proceed from another lane at right angles with the one in which I then was. I listened: the sound became more distinct; I recognized ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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