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Definition of Anxious
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.

Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.

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Anxious Quotations

Love is full of anxious fears.
Ovid

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason Cooley

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Samuel Butler

Anxious Translations

anxious in Afrikaans is bekommerd
anxious in Dutch is bang, bezorgd, beducht, ongerust
anxious in Italian is pieno di timore
anxious in Latin is intentus, sollicitus, sollicitus
anxious in Portuguese is ansioso
anxious in Spanish is inquieto, receloso, ansioso


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