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Adjective: anxious  angk-shus
  1. Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
    "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her";
    - nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet
     
  2. Eagerly desirous
    "anxious to see the new show at the museum";
    - dying

See also: antsy [N. Amer, informal], eager, fidgety, fretful, itchy, keen, keyed-up, on edge, restless, troubled, twitchy [informal]

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