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Adjective anxious has 3 senses
- anxious, apprehensive - mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
Antonyms: easy, at ease (indirect, via uneasy)
- anxious, dying - eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won"
Antonym: uneager (indirect, via eager)
- anxious, nervous, uneasy, unquiet - causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
Antonym: untroubled (indirect, via troubled)
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