anxious
pronunciation
How to pronounce anxious in British English:
UK [ˈæŋkʃəs]
How to pronounce anxious in American English:
US [ˈæŋkʃəs]
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- Adjective:
- mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried
- eagerly desirous
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Word Origin
- anxious (adj.)
- 1620s, from Latin anxius "solicitous, uneasy, troubled in mind" (also "causing anxiety, troublesome"), from angere, anguere "choke, squeeze," figuratively "torment, cause distress" (see anger (v.)). The same image is in Serbo-Croatian tjeskoba "anxiety," literally "tightness, narrowness." Related: Anxiously; anxiousness.
Antonym
Example
- 1. The anxious person feels like a ball of emotions .
- 2. The anxious person has the spirit like a maelstrom .
- 3. It helps quiet the mind and release anxious thoughts .
- 4. Anxious firms may be joined by other restive groups .
- 5. Oncologists are anxious for cytarabine , a leukaemia drug .