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Anxious
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Anxious
/ˈæŋkʃəs/
Feeling worried or nervous about something with an uncertain outcome
Synonyms:
worried
nervous
uneasy
apprehensive
tense
Antonyms:
calm
relaxed
unconcerned
Examples:
Her sisters were
anxious
for her, but her mother was pleased.
I felt
anxious
, in case he thought of Mary.
Her eyes were
anxious
, alarmed.
Etymology:
Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘troubled’): from Latin anxius, from angere ‘to choke’.
Usage Statistics:
14 mentions per 1 million words
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