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anxietous

anxietous adjective: afflicted with or marked by anxiety.

Adjective

anxietous (comparative more anxietous, superlative most anxietous)

  1. (rare) Afflicted with or marked by anxiety.
    • With that patronage in jeopardy, matters must be doubly anxietous with accusations of treason hanging over his head.2003, Madeleine E. Robins, Point of Honour, Forge, →ISBN, page 247
    • I was anxietous; yet, determined to survive this. I kept clenching my thighs to stop myself from pissing my pants.2010, D. W. Finton, Don't Put Her Down! You, Put Her There!, RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 33

Forms of anxietous

comparativemore anxietous
superlativemost anxietous

Origin of anxietous

From anxiety + -ous.

Questions about anxietous

What does anxietous mean?
Anxietous means afflicted with or marked by anxiety.
What part of speech is anxietous?
Anxietous is an adjective.

Words near anxietous in the dictionary

  1. anxietize
  2. anxietized
  3. anxietizes
  4. anxietizing
  5. anxietolytic
  6. anxietous
  7. anxietude
  8. anxiety
  9. anxiety disorder
  10. anxiety disorders
  11. anxiety neuroses

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