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What is the adjective for anxiousness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs anguish and angst which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

anxious
  1. Nervous and worried.
  2. Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, especially respecting something future or unknown;
  3. (of things) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying
  4. Earnestly desirous
  5. Synonyms:
      6. uneasy, worried, troubled, concerned, nervous, fearful, tense, apprehensive, distressed, disturbed, disquieted, edgy, perturbed, agitated, fretful, jittery, overwrought, jumpy, upset, bothered, fretting, twitchy, uptight, afraid, antsy, careful, wired, stressed, uncomfortable, unsettled, flurried, nervy, restless, discomposed, shaky, unquiet, aflutter, atwitter, dithery, fidgety, insecure, queasy, queazy, shaking, solicitous, spooked, toey, angstful, angsty, frightened … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “To say that I was anxious would have been an understatement given what was at stake.”
      “The clock was ticking, and I was anxious to get started before time ran out.”
      “Bolt tore a hamstring muscle while competing, sending an anxious gasp throughout the sporting world.”
anguished
  1. Feeling anguish; experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sorrowful, mournful, doleful, heartbroken, woeful, dolorous, grieving, rueful, miserable, agonised, agonized, sorry, sad, distressed, unhappy, wailing, dolesome, wretched, lamentable, plangent, despairing, funeral, bewailing, bitter, desolate, bemoaning, deploring, weeping, aching, lugubrious, devastated, tormented, plaintive, brokenhearted, regretful, sorrowing, tortured, suffering, afflicted, anxious, wounded, painful, harrowed, grief-stricken, broken-hearted, angst-ridden, cut up, racked with pain, racked with suffering, dejected … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In a hospice setting it is not unusual to be confronted by anguished relatives witnessing the physical deterioration of their loved ones.”
angstful
  1. Full of angst; fearful; apprehensive
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fearful, anxious, tense, apprehensive, nervous, worried, uneasy, edgy, uptight, jittery, agitated, troubled, stressed, upset, restless, disturbed, perturbed, twitchy, disquieted, nervy, concerned, unsettled, bothered, insecure, unquiet, distressed, discomposed, fretful, overstrung, toey, flurried, angsty, fretting, solicitous, bugged, on edge, ill at ease, on tenterhooks, keyed up, in a sweat, strung up, worried sick, in a stew, in a flap, in a tizzy, in a twitter, in a tizz, in a state of agitation, under stress, having kittens … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “One by one the family are transformed by the pods, until only the angstful teen daughter is left to make her escape.”
      “It's a lot harder to write music and to get more melodic and try to actually have songs within those heavy, droning, angstful power chords.”
anxiolytic
  1. (pharmacology) That reduces anxiety; tranquilizing
angstless
  1. Without angst; worry-free.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Despite all the many difficulties that have befallen her, Storm always makes free and responsible choices. But is an angstless existence really possible?”
anxietous
  1. (rare) Afflicted with or marked by anxiety.
  2. Examples:
      3. “With that patronage in jeopardy, matters must be doubly anxietous with accusations of treason hanging over his head.”
anguisht
  1. Obsolete form of anguished.
anctious
  1. Obsolete form of anxious.
anxietolytic
  1. (pharmacology) That reduces anxiety
angsty
  1. Fraught with angst.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. anxious, apprehensive, uneasy, perturbed, insecure, distressed, concerned, upset, worried, bothered, disquieted, disturbed, troubled, unsettled, stressed, discomposed, agitated, tense, uptight, jittery, edgy, fretful, antsy, nervous, restless, twitchy, fearful, overstrung, flurried, nervy, toey, ill at ease, queazy, afraid, having kittens, spooked, frightened, jumpy, fidgety, scared, dithery, uncomfortable, unglued, queasy, fretting, unquiet, stressy, on edge, hung up, worried sick … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “When the final exams were approaching, she became increasingly angsty, fearing that she hadn't studied enough.”
      “Although Emily's contemplations can feel overwritten and her symbolism heavy-handed, her engagingly angsty personality draws us in.”
      “The more disturbing aspect of this story is the amount of angsty torture they're putting their fictional selves through.”
anxiouser
  1. (nonstandard) comparative form of anxious: more anxious
anxiousest
  1. (nonstandard) superlative form of anxious: most anxious
angstier
  1. comparative form of angsty: more angsty
  2. Synonyms:
      3. more anxious, more apprehensive, more uneasy, more perturbed, more insecure, more distressed, more concerned, more upset, more worried, more bothered, more disturbed, more troubled, more stressed, more unsettled, more discomposed, tenser, more agitated, uptighter, jitterier, edgier, more nervous, more fretful, antsier, more restless, twitchier, fearfuller, more overstrung, nervier, toeier, more ill at ease, more afraid, queazier, more frightened, jumpier, more spooked, more scared, fidgetier, more dithery, more uncomfortable, more unglued, queasier, unquieter, more stressy, more angstful, more solicitous, more bugged, tauter, more keyed up, more distraught, more careful … more
angstiest
  1. superlative form of angsty: most angsty
  2. Synonyms:
      3. most anxious, most apprehensive, most uneasy, most perturbed, most insecure, most distressed, most concerned, most upset, most worried, most bothered, most disturbed, most troubled, most stressed, most unsettled, most discomposed, tensest, most agitated, uptightest, jitteriest, edgiest, most nervous, most fretful, antsiest, most restless, twitchiest, fearfullest, most overstrung, nerviest, toeiest, most ill at ease, most afraid, queaziest, most frightened, jumpiest, most spooked, most scared, fidgetiest, most dithery, most uncomfortable, most unglued, queasiest, unquietest, most stressy, most angstful, most solicitous, most bugged, tautest, most keyed up, most distraught, most careful … more
anguishing
  1. present participle of anguish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. grieving, agonising, agonizing, mourning, sorrowing, suffering, hurting, bleeding, aching, lamenting, bemoaning, bewailing, feeling wretched, carrying on, singing the blues, eating your heart out, weeping and wailing, weeping, wailing, regretting, sobbing, crying, keening, pining, shedding tears, feeling sad, feeling pain, going through the mill, crying a river, taking it hard, despairing, moaning, deploring, groaning, paining, enduring agony, experiencing hardship, going through a lot, having a bad time, fretting, repining, languishing, sighing, grieving over, wailing over, grieving for, keening over, keening for, sorrowing for, wearing black … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The anguishing news of her father's sudden passing left her inconsolable.”
angsted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of angst
angsting
  1. present participle of angst
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