Word Meanings - OVERANXIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.

ANXIOUSLY
In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
NEEDLESS
1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
ANXIOUSNESS
The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
DEGREE
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
ANXIOUS
1. Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle. 2. Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying;
OVERANXIOUS
Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.