ANXIOUS Synonyms

• of or relating to the nervous system

• easily agitated

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• excited in anticipation

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• worried and uneasy

• ceaselessly in motion

• nervous and unable to relax

• troubled emotionally and usually deeply

• physically disturbed or set in motion

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• quick to understand

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

• experiencing or showing fear

• causing fear or dread or terror

• extremely distressing

• timid by nature or revealing timidity

• nervous and unable to relax

• habitually complaining

• thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need

• characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• characterized by unrest or disorder

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• exercising caution or showing care or attention

• cautiously attentive

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• full of cares or anxiety

• mindful of the future in spending money

• feeling or showing worry or solicitude

• involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in

• culpably involved

• having the place or position changed

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

• emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

• affected with madness or insanity

• in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be

• the time when something ends

• eagerly desirous

• causing or able to cause nausea

• feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• full of anxiety and concern

• showing hovering attentiveness