anxious

Other forms of anxious

comparative

anxiouser·

superlative

anxiousest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anxious

What does anxious mean?

anxious means "eagerly desirous". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anxious?

anxious has 2 syllables: an-xious. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæŋkʃəs/.

What is another word for anxious?

Close synonyms include dying, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anxious a common word?

anxious is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.