Overanxious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overanxious \O"ver*anx"ious\, a.
     Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. --
     {O"ver*anx"ious*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  overanxious
       adj : anxious or nervous to an excessive degree

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "overanxious":
     agitated, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive,
     at fever pitch, bothered, concerned, delirious, disquieted,
     disturbed, fanatical, fearful, febrile, feverish, foreboding,
     frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hysteric,
     in a pucker, in a stew, infatuated, insane, misgiving, nervous,
     on tenterhooks, overapprehensive, overdesirous, overeager,
     overenthusiastic, overzealous, perfervid, perturbed, solicitous,
     strained, suspenseful, tense, troubled, ultrazealous, uneasy, wild,
     zealous