Anxious
Anxious adjective - Feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty.
Scared is a synonym for anxious in worried topic. In some cases you can use "Scared" instead an adjective "Anxious", when it comes to topics like frightened.
Scared
Scared adjective - Filled with fear or dread.
Usage example: at the sight of the grizzly bear he froze, being too scared to even run away
Anxious is a synonym for scared in frightened topic. You can use "Anxious" instead an adjective "Scared".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- She's horribly scared and anxious already but being transported centuries into the future or even so far in the future that everything is darkness and nothing else exists only makes it infinite times more worse.
Source: Fate Worse Than Death -
They're immature and take things too far but they're also standing up against a genuinely sexist mentality and are anxious about being away from home for the first time in their lives and scared of being alone at college.
Source: Film / Neighbors (2014)
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