anxious
adjective
1. eagerly desirous
- anxious to see the new show at the museum
2. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
- spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
- cast anxious glances behind her
Similar word(s): troubled, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
Sentences with anxious as an adjective:
- I could tell she was anxious as she was biting her nails.
- All the voters were anxious to hear the election result.