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Definition of Overanxious
1. Adjective. Anxious or nervous to an excessive degree.
Definition of Overanxious
1. a. Anxious in an excessive or needless degree.
Definition of Overanxious
1. Adjective. Excessively anxious or nervous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overanxious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overanxious
Literary usage of Overanxious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Under Three Flags in Cuba: A Personal Account of the Cuban Insurrection and by George Clarke Musgrave (1899)
"... also had been intercepted en route, and Wey- 1er, overanxious to stifle news
direct from the S had ordered a watch to be set for the writer и5 i ..."
2. The Esoteric: A Magazine of Advanced and Practical Esoteric Thought edited by Hiram Erastus Butler (1896)
"The next best thing is to stand still and think, why are we so overanxious about
our surroundings, and why are we in such a hurry with our development, ..."
3. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1916)
"... and yet allows himself to appear so overanxious that he comes in for the wise
rebuke of the light-headed Gratiano — " You have too much respect upon the ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"... and has left a fear of the danger of crowding down membrane in front of a tube
introduced into the larynx, which may, perhaps, make me overanxious. DR. ..."
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