Anxious and Shrinking

Anxious

Anxious adjective - Feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty.

Shrinking and anxious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shrinking" instead an adjective "Anxious".

Nearby Words: anxiety, anxiously

Shrinking

Shrinking noun - The act of becoming less.
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Synonyms for Shrinking

Anxious and shrinking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anxious" instead an adjective "Shrinking".

Nearby Words: shrink, shrinkage, shrinked

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / The Abandon Trilogy Shrinking Violet: Though she was once in Drama class, Pierce gets very anxious around people even after she makes friends and after her Near Death experience.
  • In Tsuritama Natsuki is this when you look at the other main characters: a Shrinking Violet who accidentally pulls a Face of a Thug whenever anxious (which is often), a M.I.B.
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