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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
Posts like that were only one example of "doom spending" — a concept of spending more money when we feel anxious.
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.
“Don’t,” blurted her mother, Rebecca Marriott, who laughed along with everyone else, but kept sneaking anxious peeks at her watch.
“I could feel it when I went into my classroom,” said the professor, whose research has found that people with political anxiety aren’t necessarily anxious in general.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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