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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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"Anxious" Quotes from Famous Books

... it is to be obtained were at variance with any reasonable interpretation of the Scriptures and the dictates of human reason. "It measured virtue," says Schaff, "by the quantity of outward exercises, instead of the quality of the inward disposition, and disseminated self-righteousness and an anxious, legal, ...

— A Short History of Monks and Monasteries • Alfred Wesley Wishart

... chatting with what seemed absolute frankness about her future life in the cottages, answering little questionings of Lady Shuttleworth's with a discretion and plausibility that would have warmed Fritzing's anxious heart, dwelling most, for here the ground was safest, on her uncle, his work, his gifts and character, and Lady Shuttleworth, completely fascinated, had offered her help of every sort, help in the arranging of her little home, in the planting of its garden, even in the building of ...

— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim

... a careful watch over Amenda during the remainder of our stay at Folkestone, and an anxious time we had of it. Every day some regiment or other would march through the town, and at the first sound of its music Amenda would become restless and excited. The Pied Piper's reed could not have stirred the Hamelin children deeper than did those Sandgate bands the heart of our domestic. ...

— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various

... hot, really. I'll walk as far as the end of the terrace and back—once. Do you mind telling me why you are so tremendously anxious to have me ...

— Adam Johnstone's Son • F. Marion Crawford

... and Lucille had returned to Paris, but, the former wrote me, were anxious to get away from the capital, which no longer offered a pleasant home to avowed Legitimists. Madame still entrusted me with the management of her affairs, which I administered tant bien que mal by correspondence, and the harvest promised to be such a good ...

— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman

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