What is anxious and what does anxious mean? Read about the definition and meaning of anxiousanxious Add your own definitionAnxious is an English word with the following meaning:WorriedNervousConcernedPerturbed Etymology & Origin of anxious First coined circa 1615 from Latin "anxius" which means: “worried, distressed,”Similar words perturbedRelated storiesSee more #categoriesAbbreviationsAfrican wordsArabic wordsCantonese wordsCrypto slangDutch wordsFeaturedFrench wordsGerman wordsHindi wordsItalian wordsJapanese wordsLatin wordsObsolete wordsPolish wordsRussian wordsSlangSpanish wordsTopicsTurkish wordsWeb3.0 & metaverse wordsWord of the Day