1. Feeling worry or concern or insecurity.
2. Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement.
3. Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness.
4. Filled with fear or apprehension.
ETYM Latin anxius, from angere to cause pain, choke; akin to Greek agchein to choke. Related to Anger.
1. Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; SYN. nervous, uneasy, unquiet.
2. Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; SYN. apprehensive.
3. (Colloquial) Eagerly desirous; SYN. dying.
ETYM AS. cearful.
1. Cautiously attentive; SYN. heedful.
2. Exercising caution or showing care or attention.
3. (Archaic) Full of cares or anxiety.
4. Mindful of the future in spending money; SYN. thrifty.
5. With care and dignity; SYN. deliberate, measured.
1. (Used in combination) Being of a specified kind of inclination or disposition
2. (Used in combination) Mentally oriented toward something specified
ETYM Latin sollicitus, solicitus. Related to Solicit.
1. Full of anxiety and concern.
2. Showing hovering attentiveness.
Anxious; concerned
On condition that; with the understanding; if
In a concerned and solicitous manner.