How do you use Anxious in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like dying or eager, plus the exact meaning.
Anxious meaning
- Nervous and worried.
- Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown.
- Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying.
Using Anxious
- The main meaning on this page is: Nervous and worried. | Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown. | Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying.
- Useful related words include: dying, eager, nervous, queasy.
- In the example corpus, anxious often appears in combinations such as: anxious to, anxious about, anxious and.
Context around Anxious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 4 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Anxious
- In this selection, "anxious" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, feel, completely, although, thoughts, teenager and mother stand out and add context to how "anxious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10 completely anxious and although anxious insecure and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "anxious" sits close to words such as ideology, inequality and servers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with anxious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All donations to Anxious Minds. (5 words)
All were either dismissive or anxious. (6 words)
Anxious retirees and social service groups are among those already making default contingency plans. (14 words)
A deluge on Friday evening had left O'Brien so anxious about underfoot conditions that he had walked the track 35 minutes before the Dewhurst – the race that crowns the season's leading juvenile – to make sure it wouldn't compromise him. (42 words)
Another driver, named Thomas, is growing anxious after he parked his Mercedes in Terminal Car Park 2 - receiving a notification on Mercedes Me at 00.30am on the morning of the fire that his car bonnet had opened. (38 words)
Around four in ten women said they suffer physical symptoms such as heart palpitations and headaches induced by work anxiety, while six in ten female execs were anxious work pressures had exerted enduring harm on their relationships. (37 words)
If you don’t know what your anxious thoughts are, these eight questions will help you to identify them: 1. When I feel anxious, what is going through my mind? (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
If you don’t know what your anxious thoughts are, these eight questions will help you to identify them: 1. When I feel anxious, what is going through my mind?
I no longer want to be anxious about people calling me and I don’t know the number or anxious about blocked calls,” she said.
She was dismissed – made to feel that she was being an over-anxious teenager and I was being an over-anxious mother.
People were also asked to rate their level of anxiety over a given day, with zero representing “not at all anxious” and 10 “completely anxious”.
I’m quite anxious, I feel quite anxious a lot of the time, so making a film about that, it made sense.
A deluge on Friday evening had left O'Brien so anxious about underfoot conditions that he had walked the track 35 minutes before the Dewhurst – the race that crowns the season's leading juvenile – to make sure it wouldn't compromise him.
After being in power at the center for 9 years and in the state for the last 5 years, they are in such a state because they are anxious, scared and desperate to stay in power.
Albion face an anxious wait on the fitness of midfielder Okay Yokuslu after the Turk was caught in a late challenge that led to the incorrect penalty call on Daryl Dike.
All donations to Anxious Minds.
All that is left today of that anxious era is a few support beams - and the view.
All were either dismissive or anxious.
Although anxious, insecure, and full of anger and frustration, Hughie is also compassionate and kind, although far less than he was before his girlfriend's brutal death.
A Manchester Crown Court jury that deliberated 22 days convicted Letby, 33, of murdering the seven babies over a yearlong period that saw her prey on the vulnerabilities of sick newborns and their anxious parents.
And those who came into the study most stressed and anxious saw the largest drop in mental health issues.
Another driver, named Thomas, is growing anxious after he parked his Mercedes in Terminal Car Park 2 - receiving a notification on Mercedes Me at 00.30am on the morning of the fire that his car bonnet had opened.
Anxious retirees and social service groups are among those already making default contingency plans.
A recent survey by the Mental Health Foundation found a quarter of adults said they felt so anxious it stopped them from doing things they want to do some, or all, of the time.
Around four in ten women said they suffer physical symptoms such as heart palpitations and headaches induced by work anxiety, while six in ten female execs were anxious work pressures had exerted enduring harm on their relationships.
As Americans become increasingly anxious about immigration, Vice President Kamala Harris is searching for answers in all of the wrong places.
As an oversensitive, anxious and perpetually embarrassed teenager, I wanted to hide everything about my weird, American, pot-smoking parents and their crazy décor.
Common combinations with anxious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- anxious to 34×
- anxious about 33×
- anxious and 22×
- and anxious 13×
- feel anxious 11×
- are anxious 11×
- an anxious 11×
- was anxious 8×
- feeling anxious 6×
- so anxious 5×