Alternatives for Anxious/Anxiously

Alternatives is a recurring post in which I give synonyms for an over used word. Click on the tab above for a "complete" list of over used words. 

Depending on how you use it, this list may come in handy for finding another way to say the same thing.


 Today's word is:Anxious/Anxiously

As might be expected, there is long list of possible alternatives, and I'm not entirely sure I have them all. I'll try to be anxious. To aid in reading them, I've put a line space between the letter groups.

aflutter, afraid, aggrieved, aghast, agitated, agog, alarm, angst, annoyance, anticipation,

ants in the pants, antsy, apprehension, ardent, athirst, atwitter, avid

basket case,  bothered/botheration, breathless, bugged, butterflies

care/careful, choked, clutched, cold sweat, concerned, consternation, crazy,

creeped out/creepy

desirous, discontent, disquieted, distraught, distressed/distressful, disturbed/disturbing,

dithery, dread/dreading

eager, edgy, enthused, excited, expectancy/expectant 

falter, fear/fearful, fidgety, flighty, flustered, fluttery, foreboding, fraught, freaked/freaked-out, fretful/fretfulness/fretting, fuss

geeked, goose bumps, goosey, gung-ho,

hacked, hairy, heartquake, heart-sinking, heebie-jeebies, hepped-up, hesitant, het up, high-strung, hinky, hold one’s breath, hopped-up, hot, hot and bothered, hung up, hungry, hyper, hypertense

ill at ease, impatient,  in a state, in a tizzy, in suspense, insecure, intent, irritation, itch/itching

jitters/jittery, juiced, jumps/jumpy

keen

misery, misgiving, mistrust

nail-biting, needles, nerve-racking/wracking, nervous/nervousness/nervy,

neurotic, nuts

obsessed, on edge, on pins and needles, on tenderhooks, overwrought

panic, perturbed, preoccupied, pumped

qualmish, qualmy, queasy/queazy

raring, restless, restless,

scared, shake/shaking/shaky, shivers/shivery, shook up, shot to pieces, sit upon thorns, skittish, solicitous/solicitude, spooked/spooky, stewing, stoked, strung out, suffering, suspense, sweat, sweating bullets

taut, tense, the all overs, thirsty, trembling, trouble/troubled/troubling, twitchy, twittered

uncertainty, undone, unease/uneasiness/uneasy, unglued, unnerved, unnerving, unquiet, unsettling, unstrung, upset, uptight

vexation of spirit, vexed, voracious

watchful, wigged out, wild, willies, wired, worried sick, worry/worrisome/worriment, wrech

yearning

Because I can't leave you, my faithful Random Readers, feeling all panicked  and wired with the hyper willies, I thought I offer up this bit of comic relief.

Do you over use anxious? Do you have a favorite word or phrase to use in its place? Are you an anxious person?