eager vs anxious
Definitions
adjective
- having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
noun
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Examples
On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia.
We were like sponges; we absorbed knowledge eagerly after the ten-year void.
Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it.
Definitions
adjective
- eagerly desirous
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Examples
Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am.
I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready.
Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale.
