"anxious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

anxious adjetivo

anxious + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 46
anxious face • anxious eye • anxious look • anxious moment • anxious glance • ...
verbo + anxious
Kolokacji: 7
feel anxious • look anxious • grow anxious • sound anxious • become anxious • ...
adverbio + anxious
Kolokacji: 23
most anxious • increasingly anxious • particularly anxious • extremely anxious • suddenly anxious • ...
(4) overly, slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 3
1. slightly anxious = trochę pełny niepokoju slightly anxious
2. overly anxious = zbyt pełny niepokoju overly anxious
  • "If the person is not overly anxious and understands" the test's limitations, he said, "I see no harm in going ahead with it."
  • I've suspected you were overly anxious about your injury.
  • But he held back, not wishing to appear overly anxious.
  • Don't be overly anxious," he added, resting one hand lightly on her shoulder.
  • These phrases can make the child unstable and overly anxious when left alone.
  • Or is it the reaction of a woman overly anxious to prove her authority to herself and others?
  • He didn't want him running into overly anxious security forces who might gun him down.
  • Most economists say that Wall Street has been overly anxious about inflation's return.
  • He reached the wall and knelt there, not overly anxious to see what lay beyond.
  • Network programming people in particular have not been overly anxious to take them, though advertisers report that the networks are getting less chilly.
3. somewhat anxious = nieco pełny niepokoju somewhat anxious
(5) clearly, understandably
Kolokacji: 2
anxious + preposición
Kolokacji: 7
anxious about • anxious for • anxious to • anxious in • anxious at • ...

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