Crossword-Solution: ANXIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anxious | a. | 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. |
| Anxious | a. | Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. |
| Anxious | a. | Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. |
We have 69 clues for the answer “ANXIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | 1 answer |
| ___ seat (revival-meeting bench) | 1 answer |
| White-knuckled | 1 answer |
| Fidgeting, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Feeling fretful | 1 answer |
| Feeling butterflies, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Disquieted. | 3 answers |
| On tenterhooks | 9 answers |
| downtrodden | 9 answers |
| BE DISQUIETED ABOUT | 10 answers |
| fussed | 11 answers |
| fretted | 15 answers |
| Keyed up | 17 answers |
| On edge? | 20 answers |
| Jumpy | 21 answers |
| LONGING for | 24 answers |
| Antsy | 24 answers |
| strained | 24 answers |
| appetent | 25 answers |
| beleaguered | 29 answers |
| Avid | 30 answers |
| Stressed | 34 answers |
| Itching | 34 answers |
| Paranoid | 35 answers |
| besieged | 35 answers |
| anguished | 36 answers |
| Expectant | 38 answers |
| startled | 38 answers |
| Aggrieved | 39 answers |
| Fretting. | 40 answers |
| Apprehensive | 40 answers |
| aghast | 41 answers |
| neurotic | 42 answers |
| Fretful | 45 answers |
| Suspect | 46 answers |
| harried | 48 answers |
| Breathless | 48 answers |
| Deranged | 50 answers |
| Alarmed. | 51 answers |
| Troubled | 52 answers |
| Careworn | 54 answers |
| ACTING rashly | 54 answers |
| Tense | 55 answers |
| Quivering | 58 answers |
| Haggard | 58 answers |
| plagued | 58 answers |
| solicitous | 59 answers |
| frantic | 60 answers |
| tormented | 60 answers |
| distraught | 60 answers |
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Sentences with ANXIOUS (5)
They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way.
How fully hast thou satisfi’d mee, pure Intelligence of Heav’n, Angel serene, And freed from intricacies, taught to live, The easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts To interrupt the sweet of Life, from which God hath bid dwell farr off all anxious cares, And not molest us, unless we our selves Seek them with wandring thoughts, and notions vaine.
Every city slaveholder is anxious to have it known of him, that he feeds his slaves well; and it is due to them to say, that most of them do give their slaves enough to eat.
Oak was not bound by his agreement to assist in the corn-field; but the harvest month is an anxious time for a farmer, and the corn was Bathsheba’s, so he lent a hand.
She saw her father’s face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother’s, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter’s pathway.
Quotes with ANXIOUS (3)
True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.
The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways — and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.
In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Slate, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).