different between anxious vs acquisitive

English

Alternative forms

• anctious (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin anxius, from ang? (“to cause pain, choke”); akin to Ancient Greek ???? (ánkh?, “to choke”). See anger; angst.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?(k)??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ?(k).??s/
• Hyphenation: anx?ious

Adjective

anxious (comparative more anxious or anxiouser, superlative most anxious or anxiousest)

1. Nervous and worried.
2. Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown.

   • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
3. (of things) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying.
4. Earnestly desirous.

Usage notes

• Anxious is followed by for, about, concerning, etc., before the object of solicitude.
• Some argue that this word should only be used in the sense of "worried" or "worrisome".

Synonyms

• angstful
• careful
• concerned
• disturbed
• restless
• solicitous
• uneasy
• unquiet
• watchful
• worrisome

Derived terms

• anxiously
• anxiousness

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Anxiety on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• anxious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anxious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Siouxan

English

Adjective

acquisitive (comparative more acquisitive, superlative most acquisitive)

1. (obsolete) Acquired.
2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.

   He is an acquisitive person.

   She has an acquisitive nature.

3. Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

Translations

References

• acquisitive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Adjective

acquisitive

1. feminine singular of acquisitif

Italian

Adjective

acquisitive

1. feminine plural of acquisitivo