What is another word for anxious?
735 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈaŋʃəs], [ ˈaŋʃəs], [ ˈa_ŋ_ʃ_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for anxious:- afraid (adjective)
- aghast (adjective)
- agog (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- ambitious (adjective)
- antsy (adjective)
- athirst (adjective)
- attentive (adjective)
- begging (adjective)
- beside oneself (adjective)
- bothered (adjective)
- breathless (adjective)
- concerned (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- desirous (adjective)
- despairing (adjective)
- discontent (adjective)
- distraught (adjective)
- distressed (adjective)
- distressful (adjective)
- eager (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- enthusiastic (adjective)
- excited (adjective)
- expectant (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- fidgety (adjective)
- frightened (adjective)
- gung ho (adjective)
- harried (adjective)
- ill (at ease) (adjective)
- ill at ease (adjective)
- impatient (adjective)
- insecure (adjective)
- jealous (adjective)
- jumpy (adjective)
- longing (adjective)
- loving (adjective)
- neurotic (adjective)
- on edge (adjective)
- panicky (adjective)
- petrified (adjective)
- queasy (adjective)
- restless (adjective)
- scared (adjective)
- self-conscious (adjective)
- sleepless (adjective)
- stressed out (adjective)
- tense (adjective)
- thirsty (adjective)
- thoughtful (adjective)
- troubled (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- unquiet (adjective)
- unsettled (adjective)
- uptight (adjective)
- vigilant (adjective)
- worried, tense (adjective)
- worrisome (adjective)
- on edge (adverb)
- anxious (noun)
- eager (noun)
- fraught (noun)
- on edge (noun)
- other synonyms
- disturbed
Synonyms for Anxious:
adj.
•afraid (adjective)- most trembling,
- most aroused,
- most terror stricken,
- most daunted,
- co wed,
- have cold feet,
- most terrorstricken,
- most faint hearted,
- more faint-hearted,
- most rattled,
- panic stricken,
- more cowed,
- scared death,
- more terror stricken,
- more terror-stricken,
- more trembling,
- most cowed,
- dis heartened,
- more terrorstricken,
- more daunted,
- more disheartened,
- more aroused,
- most terror-stricken,
- faint hearted,
- dis-heartened,
- more rattled,
- dis-mayed,
- most faint-hearted,
- panicstricken,
- more dismayed,
- co-wed,
- most disheartened,
- terror stricken,
- most dismayed,
- timorous,
- more nervous,
- most spooked,
- more spooked,
- terrorstricken,
- up-set,
- dis mayed,
- more faint hearted.
- more horror struck,
- horrorstruck,
- most appalled,
- more astounded,
- more horror-struck,
- most astonished,
- more astonished,
- most horror-struck,
- more amazed,
- most awestruck,
- over-whelmed,
- most astounded,
- most horrorstruck,
- over whelmed,
- horror struck,
- most amazed,
- more appalled,
- more agape,
- more horrorstruck,
- more awestruck,
- most agape,
- most horror struck.
- self-starting,
- High-reaching,
- inspired,
- go getter,
- ball of fire,
- hard ball,
- get up and go,
- goal-oriented,
- bent upon,
- power-loving,
- fireball,
- come on strong.
- most workedup,
- workedup,
- out ones wit,
- over wrought,
- out of one mind,
- out one mind,
- un-balanced,
- out ones mind,
- in sanest,
- in-sanest,
- hysterical,
- un hinged,
- out mind,
- out of ones mind,
- out one's wit,
- most worked-up,
- out one wit,
- un-hinged,
- in saner,
- out of wit,
- in-sane,
- out of one wit,
- more worked-up,
- in-saner,
- more worked up,
- more workedup,
- un balanced,
- most worked up,
- in sane,
- out one's mind,
- out of ones wit.
- most open mouthed,
- open mouthed,
- more open mouthed,
- most open-mouthed,
- more open-mouthed,
- more openmouthed,
- most openmouthed,
- more flabbergasted,
- most flabbergasted.
- more exercised,
- butterflies stomach,
- worried sick,
- biting ones nails,
- tied knots,
- tied in knots,
- biting one nails,
- tied up knots,
- most exercised,
- in stew.
- Chicken-hearted,
- pigeonhearted,
- weak-kneed,
- having the willies,
- no guts,
- running scared,
- yellow-bellied,
- Cowhearted,
- lacking courage,
- shrinking,
- softer.
- dreary,
- overcome,
- gloomy,
- dejected,
- morose,
- disconsolate,
- dolorous,
- grim,
- despondent,
- glum,
- disheartened,
- heartbroken,
- lachrymose,
- joyless,
- woeful,
- contemplative,
- blue,
- sullen,
- discouraged,
- downhearted,
- plaintive,
- moody,
- pensive,
- melancholy,
- dispirited,
- depressed,
- wistful,
- mournful,
- sad,
- miserable.
- in consolable,
- most no-win,
- nowin,
- more no-win,
- in pits,
- in the dumps,
- more sunk,
- more no win,
- at end of ones rope,
- at end ones rope,
- hopeless,
- more strabilious,
- in dumps,
- in soup,
- not prayer,
- grief stricken,
- no win,
- most no win,
- at end of one rope,
- most sunk,
- at end one rope,
- most nowin,
- cant win,
- at end one's rope,
- at end rope,
- de pressed,
- more nowin,
- de-pressed,
- wretched,
- in-consolable,
- most strabilious.
- frustrated,
- disgruntled,
- exasperated,
- discontent,
- uncomfortable,
- teed off,
- discomposed,
- sour,
- displeased,
- disquieted,
- cheerless,
- dissatisfied,
- dissident,
- malcontent,
- non-satisfied,
- bored,
- fed up,
- ungratified,
- ticked off,
- irritated,
- unhappy,
- disapproving,
- cross,
- irreconcilable.
- more nonplussed,
- more discomposed,
- harassed,
- dis-composed,
- most discomposed,
- most flustered,
- un glued,
- in panic,
- more unzipped,
- most unscrewed,
- more tormented,
- more unglued,
- un-glued,
- un-zipped,
- un-screwed,
- like chicken with its head cut off,
- un zipped,
- more unscrewed,
- dis-trait,
- most nonplussed,
- more flustered,
- most tormented,
- most harassed,
- more harassed,
- dis trait,
- dis composed,
- un screwed,
- most unglued,
- most unzipped.
- more unconsolable,
- in tizzy,
- more ripped,
- dis-tressed,
- most saddened,
- un consolable,
- dis tressed,
- most ripped,
- more bugged,
- up wall,
- miffed,
- more dragged,
- more hyper,
- most hyper,
- shookest,
- fidgety,
- more saddened,
- most unconsolable,
- un-consolable,
- most dragged,
- shooker,
- bundle nerves,
- shaky,
- most bugged.
- more overstrung,
- ex citable,
- highstrung,
- overstrung,
- over-strung,
- over strung,
- excitable,
- high strung,
- most overstrung,
- ex-citable.
- turbulent,
- animated,
- aroused,
- excited,
- attentive,
- agitated,
- disturbed,
- Energized,
- burning,
- impassioned,
- inflamed,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- stimulated,
- exhilarated,
- electrified,
- passionate,
- effervescent.
- scared,
- fainthearted,
- terrified,
- timid,
- Butterflies,
- intimidated,
- unnerved,
- in a sweat,
- Harrowed,
- having kittens,
- pushing the panic button,
- lily-livered,
- in a cold sweat,
- rattled,
- horrified,
- alarmed,
- paralyzed,
- chicken-livered,
- jellyfish,
- startled.
- more beset,
- more hard pressed,
- most beset,
- more stressed,
- hard pressed,
- most hard-pressed,
- more hard-pressed,
- be-set,
- at wits end,
- hardpressed,
- most stressed,
- most hard pressed,
- more hardpressed,
- at wit end,
- most hardpressed.
- ill.
- most chafing,
- in-tolerant,
- more unindulgent,
- in tolerant,
- racing motor,
- un indulgent,
- hot tempered,
- quicktempered,
- more appetent,
- unindulgent,
- ripe,
- more chafing,
- more straining,
- quick tempered,
- racing ones motor,
- headlong,
- most appetent,
- racing one motor,
- un-indulgent,
- most unindulgent,
- racing one's motor,
- head-long,
- head long,
- most straining.
- more unassured,
- more choked,
- Unpoised,
- in securest,
- most questioning,
- most unassured,
- un-assured,
- in-securer,
- most delphic,
- un confident,
- more unconfident,
- more unpoised,
- up air,
- up the air,
- up in air,
- in-securest,
- un-poised,
- most choked,
- in-secure,
- most unpoised,
- more delphic,
- touch go,
- most unconfident,
- more questioning,
- in securer,
- in secure,
- un-confident,
- un assured,
- un poised.
- most hysteric,
- un-stablest,
- most clutched,
- un stable,
- obsessive,
- more obsessive,
- psycho-neurotic,
- un-healthiest,
- un-healthy,
- un healthier,
- un healthiest,
- dis oriented,
- un stabler,
- more hysteric,
- more clutched,
- most manic,
- most psychoneurotic,
- more psychoneurotic,
- dis-oriented,
- un-stabler,
- psycho neurotic,
- un healthy,
- un stablest,
- dis-ordered,
- dis ordered,
- un-stable,
- most obsessive.
- most stressful,
- more overanxious,
- nerveracking,
- more stressful,
- most overanxious,
- nerve racking,
- over anxious.
- most fidgeting,
- most unpeaceful,
- un-steadiest,
- un steadier,
- more unpeaceful,
- un steady,
- tossing turning,
- more fidgeting,
- more bustling,
- most bustling,
- un-steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un peaceful,
- in-constant,
- un-peaceful.
- more dehydrated,
- bonedry,
- more juiceless,
- more lusting,
- most juiceless,
- de-hydrated,
- more sapless,
- most dehydrated,
- more waterless,
- most lusting,
- most waterless,
- droughtier,
- most sapless,
- more cottonmouthed,
- de hydrated,
- partial to,
- droughtiest,
- most cottonmouthed,
- most hankering,
- more hankering.
- more observative,
- de liberate,
- well thoughtout,
- co operative,
- un-selfish,
- un selfish,
- wellbred,
- well bred,
- most observative,
- de-liberate.
- most mortified,
- dis pleased,
- more ruffled,
- most tortured,
- more aggravated,
- most riled,
- more riled,
- dis-pleased,
- most ruffled,
- most aggravated,
- more tortured,
- most inconvenienced,
- most chagrined,
- more exacerbated,
- more harrowed,
- most exacerbated,
- more plagued,
- most harrowed,
- more pestered,
- most pestered,
- ex-acerbated,
- most plagued,
- ex acerbated,
- more inconvenienced,
- more chagrined,
- more mortified.
- most vexed,
- on qui vive,
- un-easy,
- un easier,
- most anguished,
- un easy,
- pre carious,
- more vexed,
- more palpitant,
- most palpitant,
- un-easiest,
- un easiest,
- pre-carious,
- more anguished,
- un-easier.
- dis-orderly,
- most changeful,
- mutable,
- ex plosive,
- ex-plosive,
- dis orderly,
- un-predictable,
- un predictable,
- most shifting,
- un-settled,
- more changeful,
- un settled.
- on alert,
- with weather eye open,
- with eyes peeled,
- looking to,
- on toes,
- on the job,
- open-eyed,
- openeyed,
- on lookout,
- on the lookout.
- careful,
- watchful,
- choked,
- wired,
- in a state,
- shook up,
- Hacked,
- basket case,
- overwrought,
- sweating bullets,
- Dreading,
- shaking,
- taut,
- Clutched,
- wreck,
- nervy,
- shivery,
- bugged,
- spooked.
adv.
•on edge (adverb)n.
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- worried,
- in the hope that/of,
- concerned,
- be dying for something/to do something,
- in need of something,
- urgent.
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- feelings.
- edge.
Other synonyms:
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- ominous,
- frantic,
- longingly,
- envious,
- suspicious,
- pressured,
- disconcerting,
- sobering,
- fretful,
- tensed up,
- covetous,
- half-crazed,
- high-strung,
- paranoid,
- wound up,
- broody,
- nerve-wracking,
- wary,
- angst-ridden,
- overprotective,
- worrying,
- desperately,
- daunting,
- oppressive.
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•
- frightening,
- longing,
- brooding,
- niggling,
- stressed,
- gun-shy,
- foreboding,
- knotted,
- solicitous,
- alarmist,
- desperate.
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•
- after.
Paraphrases for Anxious:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
eager, apprehensive.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
desirous, fearful, willing, enthusiastic, interested, curious, alarmed, distressed, troubled, scared, disturbed, worrying, cautious, wary, desperate, conscious, unsettled, passionate, fervent, mindful, tense, jumpy, upset, precarious, disturbing, ardent, committed, pressing, anxiousto, Desiring, urgent, careful, reluctant, turbulent, important.
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Verb, past tense
wanted.
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Adjective
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Antonyms for Anxious:
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adj.
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eager
Dreading, unenthusiastic.
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worried, tense
content, inattentive, calm, peaceful, unconcerned, assured, brave, unafraid, cool, composed, Unfearful, courageous, unworried, collected, happy, bold.
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Other antonyms:
hesitant, disinterested, lackadaisical, dispassionate, careless, unwilling, indifferent, stolid, cold, regardless, calming, unmoved, nonchalant, easy, incurious, relaxed, heedless, apathetic, reluctant, comfortable, lukewarm, frigid, languid, unmindful, phlegmatic, confident, pacific, detached, self-controlled, stony, negligent, halfhearted, loath, averse, disinclined, spiritless, controlled, impassive, languorous, self-assured, self-confident, sure, restful, casual, aloof, purposeless, uninterested, quiet.
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eager
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.
