Dictionary entry

Anxious

Pronunciation: /ˈaŋ(k)ʃəs/

Pronunciation

/ˈaŋ(k)ʃəs/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) စိုးရိမ်လျက်ရှိ သော။ ကြောင့်ကြလျက်ရှိသော။ သောကရောက်နေသော။ စိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်ရာ။ ဆန္ဒစောနေ [သော]။ လိုလားတောင့်တလျက်ရှိ [သော]။ စိတ်စောလျက်ရှိ [သော]။

Definition

anxious /'æŋkʃǝs/ adj ၁။ ~ (about sb/sth) စိုးရိမ္လ်က္ရိွ ေသာ။ ေၾကာင့္ၾကလ်က္ရိွေသာ။ ေသာကေရာက္ေနေသာ။ an anxious mother ❍ feel anxious about the future. ၂။ စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္ရာ။ We had a few anxious moment before the plane landed safely. ၃။ ~ for sth/(for sb) ဆႏၵေစာေန [ေသာ]။ လိုလားေတာင့္တလ်က္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ စိတ္ေစာလ်က္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ anxious for promotion ❍ I'm very anxious to meet him. ❍ They are anxious not to give (ie very much want to avoid giving) a bad impression. ❍ We are very anxious for him to telephone home. ❍ They are anxious that the report should be published as soon as possible. ❏ anxiously adv အေမာတေကာ။ စိုးရိမ္တႀကီး။ ‘Don't you like it?’ he asked anxiously.

Examples

  1. His silence made me anxious.
  2. An anxious glance
  3. [anxious about] : People are naturally anxious about these tests.
  4. [anxious to do something] : We’re anxious to hear from anyone who can help.
  5. [anxious (that)] : They were anxious that everyone should enjoy themselves.
  6. [anxious for] : We were all anxious for peace.
  7. We had an anxious few moments while the results were coming through.