Eager means have a great desire for something, while anxious means worried or tense. An example of a sentence using both words would be... He was eager to know the exam results but anxious incase he had failed.
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Sentence: I am anxious to know the outcome of the surgery. Sentence: I am eager to start my new job.
Anxious is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome. Eager is a feeling of enthusiasm, anticipation, or readiness to do or experience something. Anxious tends to be more negative and tied to worry, while eager is more positive and tied to excitement.
anxious
Avid, keen, anxious, athirst
Antsy is a slang word meaning impatient and anxious. It probably derives as a conflation of the word anxious and the expression "having ants in the pants," which is said of a person over-eager to begin something.
Excited, willing, enthusiastic, anxious, restless
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anxious, expectant, looking forward, hopeful,
They can be. Eager in some circumstances suggests anxious, impatient, or enthusiastic. Excited may not mean eager to do something, but for having done something.
eager, anxious, excited, enthralled, enthusiastic, avid, impatient
anxious, enthusiastic, interested, alert, and eager