anxious

Adjective

• 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
    

• eagerly desirous
  • anxious to see the new show at the museum
    
  • dying to hear who won
    

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• Synonyms: 
  nervous , queasy , uneasy , unquiet , anxious(p) , dying(p)