Definition for Anxious:

• 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.

Synonyms for Anxious:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • queasy,
  • uneasy,
  • unquiet,
  • nervous,
  • dying.
  •athirst (adjective)
  • ready and willing.
  •attentive (adjective)
  • sedulous.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • weak-kneed,
  • shrinking.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • downhearted,
  • moody,
  • miserable,
  • melancholy,
  • lachrymose,
  • woeful,
  • anguished,
  • despairing,
  • overcome,
  • morose,
  • wistful,
  • disheartened,
  • pensive,
  • contemplative,
  • dolorous,
  • glum,
  • depressed,
  • heartbroken,
  • plaintive,
  • gloomy,
  • despondent,
  • joyless,
  • sad,
  • dreary,
  • blue,
  • mournful,
  • sullen,
  • disconsolate,
  • grim,
  • dejected,
  • discouraged,
  • dispirited.
  •desirous (adjective)
  • longing,
  • Begging.
  •discontent (adjective)
  • frustrated,
  • wretched,
  • unhappy,
  • ungratified,
  • uneasy,
  • miserable,
  • bored,
  • discontent,
  • ticked off,
  • non-satisfied,
  • joyless,
  • dissident,
  • anguished,
  • cross,
  • fed up,
  • malcontent,
  • discomposed,
  • sour,
  • despondent,
  • irritated,
  • disgruntled,
  • uncomfortable,
  • disquieted,
  • irreconcilable,
  • cheerless,
  • teed off,
  • gloomy,
  • displeased,
  • restless,
  • disapproving,
  • dissatisfied,
  • exasperated.
  •eager (adjective)
  • enthusiastic,
  • expectant,
  • zealous,
  • intent,
  • breathless,
  • keen,
  • fervent,
  • avid,
  • ardent,
  • desirous,
  • yearning,
  • itching,
  • impatient,
  • agog,
  • thirsty.
  •enthusiastic (adjective)
  • keen.
  •excited (adjective)
  • effervescent,
  • ardent,
  • fiery,
  • disquieted,
  • excited,
  • impassioned,
  • burning,
  • turbulent,
  • attentive,
  • passionate,
  • agitated,
  • inflamed,
  • Energized,
  • electrified,
  • animated,
  • feverish,
  • breathless,
  • aroused,
  • exhilarated,
  • disturbed,
  • fervent,
  • stimulated.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • cowardly,
  • phobic,
  • in a dither,
  • afraid,
  • aflutter.
  •fidgety (adjective)
  • antsy.
  •frightened (adjective)
  • jittery,
  • Butterflies,
  • intimidated,
  • timid,
  • afraid,
  • frightened,
  • scared,
  • Harrowed,
  • chicken-livered,
  • startled,
  • terrified,
  • alarmed,
  • unnerved,
  • fearful,
  • fainthearted,
  • lily-livered,
  • petrified,
  • horrified,
  • cowardly,
  • in a sweat,
  • rattled,
  • terror-stricken,
  • weak-kneed,
  • apprehensive,
  • agitated,
  • scared stiff,
  • paralyzed.
  •jealous (adjective)
  • mistrustful.
  •queasy (adjective)
  • Qualmish.
  •self-conscious (adjective)
  • self-conscious.
  •worried (adjective)
  • concerned,
  • worrying,
  • solicitous.
  •worried, tense (adjective)
  • overwrought,
  • taut,
  • Hacked,
  • restless,
  • shook up,
  • concerned,
  • fearful,
  • afraid,
  • nervous,
  • worried sick,
  • watchful,
  • in a state,
  • Dreading,
  • unquiet,
  • shaking,
  • fidgety,
  • wired,
  • Butterflies,
  • spooked,
  • careful,
  • disquieted,
  • uptight,
  • jumpy,
  • wreck,
  • fretful,
  • disturbed,
  • Clutched,
  • shot to pieces,
  • shivery,
  • aghast,
  • in suspense,
  • unglued,
  • troubled,
  • solicitous,
  • hyper,
  • jittery,
  • apprehensive,
  • distressed,
  • choked,
  • scared,
  • bugged,
  • antsy,
  • sweating bullets,
  • uneasy,
  • in a tizzy,
  • nervy,
  • shaky.

• n.

  •
  • concerned,
  • worried,
  • urgent.
  •
  • solicitous,
  • on edge,
  • distressed,
  • unsettled.
  •
  • severe,
  • worrying,
  • serious,
  • stressful.
  •anxious (noun)
  • eager,
  • apprehensive,
  • troubled,
  • dying,
  • unquiet,
  • nervous,
  • uneasy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • high-strung,
  • frantic,
  • pressured,
  • daunting,
  • fretful,
  • stressful,
  • overprotective,
  • wary,
  • distressed,
  • broody,
  • suspicious,
  • sobering,
  • envious,
  • wound up,
  • panicky,
  • twitchy,
  • worrying,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • neurotic,
  • covetous,
  • half-crazed,
  • disconcerting,
  • uptight.
  •
  • foreboding,
  • longing,
  • brooding,
  • niggling,
  • stressed,
  • thoughtful,
  • desperate,
  • frightening,
  • solicitous,
  • alarmist,
  • concerned.
  •
  • unsettled,
  • severe.
  •
  • serious.
  •admiring
  • loving.
  •apprehensive
  • insecure.
  •disturbed
  • wrought-up.
  •insistent
  • urgent.
  •nervous
  • tense,
  • nervous.
  •troubled
  • perturbed,
  • worried,
  • troubled.
  •Other relevant words:
  • irascible,
  • unsound,
  • nerve-racking,
  • uncourageous,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • sensitive,
  • ill,
  • dicey,
  • curious,
  • attach,
  • embarrassed,
  • inflammable,
  • bitter,
  • hang,
  • inclined,
  • distraught,
  • ashamed,
  • solicitous,
  • stressful,
  • unsure,
  • distressed,
  • defer,
  • agitating,
  • humbled,
  • suspend,
  • lively,
  • careful,
  • neural,
  • keen,
  • watchful,
  • Distrusting,
  • esurient,
  • sleepless,
  • tentatively,
  • alacritous,
  • irritable,
  • pressing,
  • shy,
  • considerate,
  • stressed,
  • iffy,
  • agog,
  • understand,
  • rueful,
  • critical,
  • full of life,
  • nauseated,
  • wreck,
  • intense,
  • perilous,
  • touch-and-go,
  • cupidity,
  • distrustful,
  • juiced,
  • testy,
  • peevish,
  • zestful,
  • intent,
  • collect,
  • timorous,
  • vivacious,
  • doubt,
  • hazardous,
  • unquiet,
  • solicitously,
  • frightening,
  • touchy,
  • sorry,
  • wound up,
  • Agitatedly,
  • thoughtful,
  • overeager,
  • delicate,
  • worrisome,
  • diffidently,
  • think of,
  • longing,
  • skittish,
  • Begging,
  • irrational,
  • wanting,
  • guilty,
  • discerning,
  • guilt-ridden,
  • Hyperdulia,
  • partial,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • unfulfilled,
  • concernedly,
  • fervid,
  • athirst,
  • comprehend,
  • cult,
  • sinking,
  • trying,
  • enthusiastic,
  • fretfully,
  • wired,
  • litany,
  • dying,
  • shaky,
  • concerned,
  • nauseous,
  • worried,
  • nasty,
  • wild,
  • panting,
  • catch,
  • suffering,
  • explosive,
  • antsy,
  • grasshopper,
  • humiliated,
  • rule,
  • Fretting,
  • vehement,
  • nervous,
  • deviant,
  • vexed,
  • queasy,
  • aghast,
  • not to,
  • gawkily,
  • vital,
  • emotional,
  • ruffled,
  • fasten,
  • overanxious,
  • harassed,
  • avarice,
  • nervy,
  • mistrustful,
  • twitchy,
  • suspense,
  • wrought-up,
  • Pleasureless,
  • anxiety,
  • quickly,
  • impetuous,
  • request,
  • taut,
  • insecure,
  • unsettling,
  • unsettled,
  • hysterical,
  • bothered,
  • unsympathetic,
  • hesitantly,
  • rapidly,
  • avid,
  • locust,
  • suspenseful,
  • suspension,
  • hopped-up,
  • Dulia,
  • hungry,
  • flappable,
  • hot,
  • appreciate,
  • contrite,
  • repentant,
  • sickening,
  • unsatisfied,
  • sharp-set,
  • trepid,
  • crabbed,
  • greediness,
  • thirsty,
  • serious,
  • ugly,
  • agonizing,
  • distrustfully,
  • Imperilled,
  • angst,
  • unstrung,
  • curiosity,
  • unpredictable,
  • expeditiously,
  • connect,
  • strung up,
  • confused,
  • devoted,
  • master,
  • restlessly,
  • fraught,
  • self-conscious,
  • get caught,
  • in a sweat,
  • heedful,
  • squirming,
  • unstable,
  • interrupt,
  • postpone,
  • white-livered,
  • fathom,
  • loving,
  • distressing,
  • itching,
  • hot to trot,
  • with bated breath,
  • willing,
  • shamefaced,
  • penitent,
  • fussy,
  • apprehend,
  • disordered,
  • expectant,
  • worry about,
  • jealous,
  • panicky,
  • beset,
  • obsessive,
  • nervously,
  • maladjusted,
  • sorrowful,
  • dithery,
  • unnerving,
  • bind,
  • unglued,
  • spooky,
  • fretful,
  • raring,
  • ring off,
  • remorseful,
  • excitable,
  • Worries,
  • partial to,
  • vivid,
  • bashfully,
  • chafing,
  • abeyance,
  • edge,
  • uncertain,
  • eager,
  • famished,
  • aching,
  • abnormal,
  • Hoping,
  • nerves,
  • strained,
  • urgent,
  • shook up,
  • realize,
  • squirmy,
  • ruler,
  • fain,
  • preoccupied,
  • bugged,
  • psychoneurotic,
  • Beadroll,
  • misgiving,
  • discomfited,
  • Qualmish,
  • Expecting,
  • disquieting,
  • supplication,
  • faint-hearted,
  • needful,
  • mistrusting,
  • agonized,
  • overwrought,
  • worriedly,
  • ravening,
  • troublous,
  • unforbearing,
  • fret,
  • tensely,
  • furious,
  • shot to pieces,
  • aspiration,
  • in a dither,
  • apprehensively,
  • apologetic,
  • camp meeting,
  • diffident,
  • regretful,
  • on edge,
  • determine,
  • tautly,
  • desirous,
  • geeked,
  • conscience-stricken,
  • volatile,
  • in sequence,
  • appetite,
  • troubled,
  • angry,
  • earnest,
  • fearfully,
  • secure,
  • swiftly,
  • quick,
  • speedily,
  • flustered,
  • distressful,
  • suddenly,
  • hopeful,
  • mortified,
  • craven,
  • bashful,
  • potentate,
  • Anticipating,
  • shrinking,
  • clumsily,
  • sedulous,
  • cautious,
  • pining,
  • vigils,
  • promptly,
  • zealous,
  • suspicious,
  • worked up,
  • ready and willing,
  • importunate,
  • monarch,
  • governor,
  • uptight,
  • shivery,
  • traumatic,
  • highly strung,
  • revival,
  • noisome,
  • hasty,
  • threatened,
  • anxiously,
  • paternoster,
  • stop,
  • make an effort,
  • lord,
  • Hacked,
  • unconfident,
  • alarmist,
  • beside oneself,
  • craving,
  • pumped,
  • shaking,
  • Repelled,
  • disgusted,
  • Butterflies,
  • Revolted,
  • half-crazed,
  • timorously,
  • panic-stricken,
  • uneasily,
  • brooding,
  • perturbed,
  • waiting,
  • aflutter,
  • energetic,
  • Unpatient,
  • conceive,
  • greedy,
  • vulnerable,
  • worry,
  • prompt,
  • panicked,
  • itchy,
  • recreant,
  • active,
  • scary,
  • Desiring,
  • upsetting,
  • wishing,
  • uncomfortably,
  • wary,
  • peckish,
  • bad,
  • caring,
  • prayer,
  • emperor,
  • rogation,
  • poltroon,
  • ungainly,
  • uncertainly,
  • overprotective,
  • edgy,
  • greed,
  • frantic,
  • latria,
  • disconcerted,
  • irked,
  • hyper,
  • leery,
  • careworn,
  • covetousness,
  • qualmy,
  • chary,
  • adjourn,
  • puzzled,
  • crazy,
  • petition,
  • forward,
  • shameful,
  • covetous,
  • quivering,
  • in a tizzy,
  • phobic,
  • Dreading,
  • Ebenezer,
  • desire,
  • jumpy,
  • nervousness,
  • aspire,
  • yearning,
  • orison,
  • doubtfully,
  • precarious,
  • dangerous,
  • sick,
  • readily,
  • prickly,
  • desperate,
  • guarded,
  • worried sick,
  • disconcerting,
  • sweating bullets,
  • forcible,
  • pusillanimous,
  • intercession,
  • Drouthy,
  • vigilant,
  • virginal,
  • addiction,
  • looking,
  • in suspense,
  • plagued,
  • invocation,
  • choked,
  • dry,
  • ill at ease,
  • foreboding,
  • get,
  • charged,
  • in good order,
  • tense,
  • in a lather,
  • creepy,
  • annoyed,
  • Inspirited,
  • shakily,
  • severe,
  • spooked,
  • upset,
  • inconvenienced,
  • worrying,
  • ready,
  • impatient,
  • hagridden,
  • chancy,
  • timidly,
  • Clutched,
  • pressured,
  • spirited,
  • ineptly,
  • neurotic,
  • in a stew,
  • daunting,
  • ambitious,
  • awkward,
  • yellow,
  • Sickened,
  • leisure,
  • ungoverned,
  • ease,
  • high-strung,
  • envious,
  • in a state,
  • keyed-up,
  • Lickerish,
  • tremulous,
  • disturbing,
  • optative,
  • fix,
  • look forward to,
  • shamed,
  • sobering,
  • fidgety,
  • voracious,
  • wishful,
  • broody,
  • niggling,
  • Vitalized,
  • suspiciously,
  • awkwardly,
  • restive,
  • anxiousness.

Antonyms for Anxious:

• adj.

  • eager
    Dreading, unenthusiastic.
  • worried, tense
    content, bold, courageous, happy, unconcerned, calm, inattentive, quiet, indifferent, unwilling, Unfearful, collected, unworried, confident, brave, assured, composed, peaceful, unafraid, cool.
  • Other antonyms:
    impassive, quiet, dispassionate, confident, easy, unmoved, restful, disinclined, unenthusiastic, unwilling, sure, halfhearted, comfortable, disinterested, self-confident, regardless, detached, phlegmatic, lackadaisical, lukewarm, languid, indifferent, loath, spiritless, stolid, self-controlled, controlled, pacific, negligent, self-assured, reluctant, cold, frigid, averse, hesitant, uninterested, incurious, nonchalant, apathetic, unmindful, stony, calming, careless, languorous, aloof, purposeless, relaxed, casual, heedless.

Homophones for Anxious:

• anas, annoyance, amass, anasazi, annoying, amish, amuck, anomic, awayness, animise, anagoge, Angus Og, amnesic, anjou, annex, Anzio, annamese, ans, anchusa, anhinga, aeneas, Amos, angus, anechoic, amaze, anise, ammoniac, ananas, awning, aminic, amnios, anguis, amiss, ananias, anonymous, anaemic, anionic, amnesia, anise cookie, amigo, announce, amyxia, angas, annonaceae, annexe, annexa, amanuensis, ANG, anunnaki, animus, anoxic, amok, anamnesis, anemic, awing, amuse, amex, amnionic, Ankus, anoxia, amnic, aengus, ANZAC, anguish, amnesiac, animize, ahimsa, anasa, anagogic.