Definition of Anxious

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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

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

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.
Norman Rockwell

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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