different between anxious vs expectant

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

Etymology

From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sp?kt?nt/

Adjective

expectant (comparative more expectant, superlative most expectant)

1. Marked by expectation.

2. Pregnant.

3. (medicine, dated) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.

Translations

Noun

expectant (plural expectants)

1. A person who expects or awaits something.

Anagrams

• exceptant

Latin

Verb

expectant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of expect?