different between anxious vs grasping

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???æsp??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????sp??/
• Hyphenation: grasp?ing

Adjective

grasping (comparative more grasping, superlative most grasping)

1. Greedy, eager for wealth.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:greedy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

grasping

1. Present participle and gerund of grasp.

Noun

grasping (plural graspings)

1. The act of one who grasps or covets.

Anagrams

• pargings, sparging, spriggan