Thesaurus / antsy
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The pandemic had made them antsy to be social again, but the idea of a dance was inconceivable a year before.
PROM, AFTER A SENIOR YEAR INTERRUPTEDMELINDA FAKUADEJULY 23, 2021VOXI was starting to get a little antsy, and with all the other routes full, I decided to ask some of the climbers on the wall if I could climb behind them rather than wait for them to top out.
A FREE SOLOIST REMEMBERS HIS YOSEMITE FREE FALLKEVIN JOHNSONJUNE 29, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEWhile I think many of us are getting antsy and want to get out and about, I think our relationship with the home has changed.
HOW THE COMPANY STORE IS REIMAGINING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES FOR PANDEMIC-ERA GROWTHCRITEOMAY 5, 2021DIGIDAYEven when she vowed to take a month or two off from traveling, she’d get antsy and book a last-minute getaway.
WHY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS CAUSED A WIDESPREAD EXISTENTIAL CRISISJAMIE DUCHARMEDECEMBER 29, 2020TIMEAs an adult, well, it meant those same things, plus driving from one relative’s house to another, with two antsy little boys in the back seat.
AT THE END OF AN ISOLATING YEAR, EVEN THE EMBARRASSING, FRUSTRATING, WEIRD PARTS OF FAMILY GATHERINGS FEEL MISSEDTHERESA VARGASDECEMBER 26, 2020WASHINGTON POSTSome diners are seeking a sense of “normalcy,” whether that means a date night or letting someone else cook for their increasingly antsy kids for once.
PEOPLE ARE DINING OUT, THEY JUST DON’T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW ABOUT ITJAYA SAXENASEPTEMBER 3, 2020EATERGive the suits something to occupy themselves with—otherwise they get antsy and stir up trouble.
MAKERSCORY DOCTOROW"Tell the truth, I'm sort of antsy to get back," Joe Kivelson said.
FOUR-DAY PLANETHENRY BEAM PIPERWORDS RELATED TO ANTSY
- acquisitive
- agog
- ambitious
- antsy
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- champing at the bit
- covetous
- craving
- desiring
- desirous
- dying to
- earnest
- fervent
- fervid
- greedy
- gung ho
- hankering
- heated
- hot
- hot to trot
- hungry
- impatient
- intent
- keen
- longing
- pining
- rarin' to go
- ready and willing
- restive
- restless
- self-starting
- solicitous
- thirsty
- vehement
- voracious
- warmblooded
- wild
- wishful
- yearning
- zealous
- active
- agitated
- antsy
- anxious
- bundle of nerves
- bustling
- changeable
- disturbed
- edgy
- fidgeting
- fidgety
- fitful
- footloose
- fretful
- hurried
- ill at ease
- inconstant
- intermittent
- irresolute
- itchy
- jumpy
- nervous
- nomadic
- on edge
- perturbed
- restive
- roving
- sleepless
- spasmodic
- strung-out
- tossing and turning
- transient
- troubled
- turbulent
- uneasy
- unpeaceful
- unquiet
- unrestful
- unruly
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- wandering
- worried
- acquisitive
- agog
- ambitious
- antsy
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- bursting
- champing at the bit
- covetous
- craving
- desiring
- desirous
- dying to
- earnest
- fervent
- fervid
- greedy
- gung-ho
- hankering
- heated
- hot
- hot to trot
- hungry
- impatient
- intent
- keen
- longing
- pining
- rarin' to go
- ready and willing
- restive
- restless
- self-starting
- solicitous
- thirsty
- vehement
- voracious
- warmblooded
- wild
- wishful
- yearning
- zealous
- abrupt
- agog
- antsy
- anxious
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- brusque
- chafing
- choleric
- curt
- demanding
- dying to
- eager
- edgy
- feverish
- fretful
- hasty
- having short fuse
- headlong
- hot under collar
- hot-tempered
- impetuous
- indignant
- intolerant
- irascible
- irritable
- itchy
- keen
- on pins and needles
- quick-tempered
- racing one's motor
- restless
- ripe
- snappy
- straining
- sudden
- testy
- thirsty
- unindulgent
- vehement
- violent
- active
- agitated
- antsy
- anxious
- bundle of nerves
- bustling
- changeable
- disturbed
- edgy
- fidgeting
- fidgety
- fitful
- footloose
- fretful
- hurried
- ill at ease
- inconstant
- intermittent
- irresolute
- itchy
- jumpy
- nervous
- nomadic
- on edge
- perturbed
- restive
- roving
- sleepless
- spasmodic
- strung-out
- tossing and turning
- transient
- troubled
- turbulent
- uneasy
- unpeaceful
- unrestful
- unruly
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- wandering
- worried
- active
- agitated
- antsy
- anxious
- busy
- changeable
- changeful
- changing
- complex
- complicated
- confused
- disorderly
- disturbed
- explosive
- fidgety
- fluid
- flustered
- inconstant
- insecure
- kinetic
- mobile
- mutable
- on edge
- perilous
- perturbed
- precarious
- rattled
- restive
- restless
- shaken
- shaky
- shifting
- shook-up
- tense
- thrown
- ticklish
- troubled
- unbalanced
- uncertain
- uneasy
- unnerved
- unpeaceful
- unpredictable
- unquiet
- unrestful
- unstable
- unsteady
- variable
- wavering
- wobbling
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