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anxious
adjective as in worried, tense
Strongest matches
afraid, apprehensive, careful, concerned, distressed, fearful, fidgety, jittery, nervous, restless, scared, uneasy, uptight
Weak matches
aghast, antsy, basket case, bugged, butterflies, choked, clutched, disquieted, disturbed, dreading, fretful, hacked, hyper, in a state, in a tizzy, in suspense, jumpy, nervy, overwrought, shaking, shaky, shivery, shook-up, shot to pieces, solicitous, spooked, strung-out, sweating bullets, taut, troubled, unglued, unquiet, watchful, wired, worried sick, wreck
Example Sentences
The researchers are anxious, however, that when the long-overdue supernova pops off in the nearby universe, we won't be ready to see the gamma rays produced by axions.
Mark Strong, so menacing in “Young Victoria” and “Sherlock Holmes” — and as an American baddie in “The Penguin” — is Merlin the good guy in the “Kingsman” franchise and, at least so far, a watchful and anxious Emperor in “Dune: Prophecy.”
His partner, Anya, paints the whimsical figurines he creates, and the irrepressible couple weather the war in bombed-out Kharkiv with their more anxious pal Andrey, a painter and cameraman.
My serenity has slid and I’m sweating and getting more anxious by the second.
On the other hand, if researchers shut this circuit off, breathing rates went up, and the mice became more anxious.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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