Word Meanings - ANXIETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison. Syn. -- Care; solicitude; foreboding; uneasiness; perplexity; disquietude; disquiet; trouble; apprehension;

Additional info about word: ANXIETY

A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison. Syn. -- Care; solicitude; foreboding; uneasiness; perplexity; disquietude; disquiet; trouble; apprehension; restlessness. See Care. (more info) 1. Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o 2. Eager desire. J. D. Forbes

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANXIETY)

• Care
• Attention
• pains
• anxiety
• concern
• trouble
• circumspection
• regard
• solicitude
• caution
• prevention
• custody
• preservation
• thrift
• heed
• foresight
• wariness
• economy
• prudence
• Concern
• Interest
• matter
• affair
• institution
• moment
• regret
• sympathy
• sorrow
• Disquietude
• Anxiety
• uneasiness
• embarrassment
• apprehension
• agitation
• disturbance
• commotion
• dissatisfaction
• Solicitude
• carefulness
• care
• Trouble
• Affliction
• annoyance
• perplexity
• molestation
• vexation
• inconvenience
• calamity
• distress
• tribulation
• disaster
• torment
• misfortune
• adversity
• misery
• grief
• depression
• difficulty
• labor
• toil
• effort

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ANXIETY)

• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Welcome
• hail
• approve
• abandon
• abjure
• forget
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to ANXIETY)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• THRIFTINESS
  The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• LABORED
  Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• UNPRUDENCE
  Imprudence.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• OVERLABOR
  1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.