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anxious English

Meaning anxious meaning

What does anxious mean?

anxious

(= dying) eagerly desirous anxious to see the new show at the museum dying to hear who won (= nervous, unquiet) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety spent an anxious night waiting for the test results cast anxious glances behind her those nervous moments before takeoff an unquiet mind

Synonyms anxious synonyms

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Topics anxious topics

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Examples anxious examples

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Simple sentences

Tom is anxious about his mother's health.
I have been anxious about your health.
I'm anxious to see you.
We are anxious for world peace.
The mother is very anxious about her children future.
There is no need to be unnecessarily anxious about the outbreak.
The slave was anxious to alter his destiny.
He is anxious to go with you.
Our children are anxious to have bicycles like those of the children next door.
I am anxious about your health.
I was anxious to read your letter from Paris.
We are anxious about her health.
Everybody was anxious to know what had happened.
Your mother is anxious about your health.
We are anxious for their safety.
We felt anxious for her safety.
I am anxious about the results of the examination.
I am anxious about the future.
I'm anxious for a promotion.

Movie subtitles

Although I told him to live a long and lean life, that Magistrate makes me anxious.
He wasn't anxious or hurried at all?
Anxious about the long absence of her father.
Thus Hutter entrusted his anxious wife to the care of his friends, the wealthy ship owner Harding and his sister.
I was anxious to see you one last time.
Why was he so anxious to buy it?
Since you're so anxious to know, I'll tell you who.
Why are you so anxious to get away?
I'll admit that we were at one time anxious for this merger.
There is gold in that mine! Or they wouldn't be so anxious to keep us away.
I'M ANXIOUS FOR YOU TO MEET THE NEW LEADER OF OUR COUNTRY.
He certainly was anxious to leave Dakang.
And he isn't at all anxious to get to Kong's island.
Now, Mrs. Glossop, before you register I'm very anxious to have just a few last words with you.
She may have been anxious that once on her path of life she might encounter an event, some sensuously intoxicating charm to which she would surrender.
Why are you so anxious?
You've no idea how anxious I am to get started working, Mr. Carson.
I'm anxious for you to meet our new leader.
The day after tomorrow. unless it is the desire of this charming young lady. to leave at once to meet her anxious bridegroom.
You know, I'm anxious to have this affair settled.
Well, you'll forgive us. if we tear ourselves away? Dancer seems a bit anxious.
I'm so anxious to tell her about Mr. Chandler's wife.
He wasn't anxious to come.
Miss Carrol. Mr. Garnett is very anxious to learn how to dance.
I'm anxious for Mr. Gordon to see this. It's an interesting experiment.
She was anxious about her mother. And she wished to make a provision for her.
Just let him continue being anxious for a while. Now he should be able to see that we are teasing Lee Jae Sin. The Royal Committee, in accordance with Article 14 Section 2 of the Royal Family Act, hereby selects Princess Lee Jae Sin for inheritance.
I'm so anxious to see you again and have you meet my husband You and your husband must call soon.
Why was he so anxious to buy it? How about it, you?
Anxious sometimes and sad.
He was most anxious to see your collection before going away.
The old man is awfully anxious to open on schedule.
Now tell me. Are you particularly anxious to go on teaching?
Dancer seems a bit anxious.
Naturally she's anxious to meet you, too, but..

News and current affairs

The educational system needs to be rebuilt almost from scratch, and with so many women anxious to return to teaching, a revived educational system will also help Afghanistan's democratic politicians gain a powerful lobby of workers.
Iran and Syria, which have played a spoiler role in Iraq up to now, may also now be anxious to find a way to pull the country back from the brink.
In fact, the Congress Party-led government, anxious to appear responsive to public demand for help during an election-year economic slowdown, has pushed forward three stimulus packages since December.
In fact, despite its politicians' anxious rhetoric, the United Kingdom is a more ethnically mixed, and in some ways more open, society than Germany.
Farmers across Europe are anxious about the future of agriculture in a globalized world.
This is a guest list that says to an anxious electorate: I respect you, wherever you are on the socioeconomic scale.
Consider recent events in Argentina, which is facing certain economic losses as anxious investors have second thoughts about the country in the aftermath of the government's nationalization of energy giant YPF.
Seven years of debt deflation, reinforced by the expectation of everlasting austerity, have decimated private and public investment and forced anxious, fragile banks to stop lending.
They were more often in moods that they described as hostile, angry, anxious, and tense.
As a psychotherapist specializing in homosexuality, I have been consulted many times by anxious parents terrified that their little boy is gay (at age five!): he likes to play with dolls, enjoys the company of girls, refuses to play soccer.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is anxious to show how tough he can be.
Why did the US not follow the more direct path of redistribution, of taxing or borrowing and spending on the anxious middle class?
But those who breathed a sigh of relief at the weakening of Netanyahu's Likud and the country's extreme right-wing parties should be as anxious as ever.
It is no accident that countries in Eastern Europe are anxious to have access to the common market of Western Europe.
There are reasons for people to feel anxious about economic globalization, pan-European bureaucracy, the huge and not always effectively controlled influx of immigrants, and the aggression of radical political Islam.
The Kazakhs are keen to sell their oil and gas to the West at the very moment that the European Union is anxious to shed its dependence on Russian supplies.
This makes people anxious for their jobs.
These men simply want their children back, but all the government is doing is watching these anxious fathers with suspicion.
European citizens - particularly in peripheral economies such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain - are anxious.
If people are anxious about their national identities, the sovereignty of their governments, the demographic and social complexion of their societies, such fears are best voiced in the political arena.
In the US, for example, no politician is anxious to say that home-mortgage deductions should be eliminated, or that dividend payments should be tax-free.
But this has led, in turn, to an anxious, balkanizing quest for identity.
China's neighbors are increasingly anxious about its growing power and assertiveness.
Last October, British Foreign Minister David Miliband was so anxious to maintain Chinese good will that he came close to denouncing his predecessors' recognition of Tibet's autonomy 100 years ago.
When the two sides are anxious to avoid provoking each other, such activities are kept to a minimum, but it would seem that China has taken a conscious decision in recent months to keep the Indians on their toes.
Australia's statements have been typical - falling over backward to avoid giving offense, and too anxious to balance criticism with praise.

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