Adjective

(en-adj)

Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, especially respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense;—applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

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*: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.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}

Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying;—applied to things; as, anxious labor.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares.

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.

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*:He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

* 1719 , , Robinson Crusoe , ch. 6:

I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.

* 1867 , , ch. 45:

The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.

* 1910 , , "The Human Drift":

Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious , the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.

Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader ).

* 1922 , , ch. 7:

If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.

* 2005 , Nathan Thornburgh, " The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time , 29 Aug.:

Methodical and voracious , these hackers wanted all the files they could find.