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adjective

Anxious adj.

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. "The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares."

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. "He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform." Note: Anxious is followed by for, about, concerning, etc., before the object of solicitude.

Synonyms: Solicitous; careful; uneasy; unquiet; restless; concerned; disturbed; watchful.

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... in business, by giving them horses to use tilling crops. I argued that the men had come home from the confederate army—this was in 1864—either discharged for wounds or disability, or paroled prisoners, and they were anxious to go to work, but that they hadn't a dollar, and our army had skinned every horse and mule on their places, and the niggers had gone, so that a horse would be a God-send to them. But the chaplain wouldn't hear to it. The men, who had collected, were ...

— How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion - or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 • George W. Peck

... ship touched, Ben made his usual anxious inquiries for Ned. He, as before, frequently heard of Englishmen living with the savages; but they did not answer to the description of his brother. Still he had hopes that he should find him. Ben remembered his father's advice, and acted up to it: "Do ...

— Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston

... enter into the diet of the child. Many parents, fearing to render their children gross and unhealthy, restrict them altogether to vegetable aliments; and thus, by weakening the powers of digestion, prepare the way for that very result which they are most anxious to avoid. ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... hardly had time to think of it," he said, "I have had so much else to occupy my thoughts. Now, I pray you, enter the inn for a few minutes; I have warned them to get a meal ready to be served at the shortest notice, for I am anxious that no time shall be lost; everything is ready ...

— Won by the Sword - A Story of the Thirty Years' War • G.A. Henty

... rare Italian master, Julio Romano, which was such a perfect resemblance of the queen that would his Majesty be pleased to go to her house and look upon it, be would be almost ready to think it was Hermione herself. Thither then they all went; the king, anxious to see the semblance of his Hermione, and Perdita longing to behold what the mother she never saw did ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

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