ANXIOUS
\ˈaŋʃəs], \ˈaŋʃəs], \ˈa_ŋ_ʃ_ə_s]\
Definitions of ANXIOUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
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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.
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Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; - applied to things; as, anxious labor.
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Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
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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.
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Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; - applied to things; as, anxious labor.
By Noah Webster.
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Deeply concerned; greatly troubled; very solicitous or uneasy; desirous; as, anxios to please.
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Anxioualy.
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Anxiousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald