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angsty | angsts |

As an adjective angsty

is fraught with angst.

As a verb angsts is

(angst).

angsty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Fraught with angst.

    • angsts

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (angst)

    • Anagrams

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    angst

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
  • * 1979 , Peter Hammill, Mirror images
    • I've begun to regret that we'd ever met / Between the dimensions. / It gets such a strain to pretend that the change / Is anything but cheap. / With your infant pique and your angst pretensions / Sometimes you act like such a creep.
  • * 2007 , Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah (page 3)
    • Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teen angst .
  • A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.

    • Derived terms

    * angst bunny, angstbunny * angsty

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To suffer angst; to fret.
  • * 2001 , Joseph P Natoli, Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture, 1996-1998
    • In the second scene, the camera switches to the father listening, angsting , dying inside, but saying nothing.
  • * 2006 , Liz Ireland, Three Bedrooms in Chelsea
    • She'd never angsted so much about her head as she had in the past twenty-four hours. Why the hell hadn't she just left it alone?

    References

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