Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Restless or impatient; fidgety: The long wait made the children antsy.
- adj. Slang Nervous; apprehensive: "Camps got shot up all the time, but if there wasn't a shoot-up, they'd get antsy” ( Harper's).
Wiktionary
- adj. restless, apprehensive and fidgety
WordNet 3.0
- adj. nervous and unable to relax
Etymologies
- Perhaps from the incessant motions of ants. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The mood in the room seemed loose, but the word "antsy" was used pretty often.”
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“There is still a sort of moral consensus that defines certain subjects as "delicate", gets kind of antsy when such topics are broached, but the consensus seems to have shifted from a conservative default to a liberal one.”
“That Champaign* at the back of my fridge is looking sort of ... "antsy".”
“I get kind of antsy quickly and I like being on the move.”
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“More than an hour or two about a movie makes me kind of antsy and grumpy!”
“Things have been kind of antsy around the Miami-Dade County Public Schools administration offices the last couple of weeks.”
“The kids were acting antsy which is to be expected because, damn, there at a freaking bank.”
“I think that would be nice, but I'm kind of antsy about the take-away already. * sigh* They like Chinese or curry.”
“KEITH BRYANT, MASTER CHIEF: I think initially the people were kind of antsy and anxious to get started.”
“When I first heard of the fact that this new team was going to come in and do new material and add to our material, I was a little kind of antsy and worried about it.'”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antsy’.
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Restless
How can you stop when your feet say go?
hyperideation, unquiet, unpeaceful, cabin fever, space-hunger, restlessness, inquietude, wanrufe, restiveness, restive, champ at the bit, fidgetiness and 28 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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New Words
smarmy, purge, linger, shimmer, fiercely, frantically, shove, grunt, errand, clench, wriggle, squeeze and 168 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1692 more...
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LibraryLynn's Words
taciturn, poleaxed, flummoxed, flabbergasted, obsequious, catty-corner, gnarly, antsy, flibbertigibbet, floozy, harebrained, sot and 3 more...
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Funny People (2009)
Words from 2009 'Funny People' film.
frenzy, mousy, antsy, flaky, stutter, twitch, purse, gullible, hatred, dum-dum, jack off, vanquish and 16 more...
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Words With Ant-Potential
Working on a project that involves many words with ANT in them. These are my favorites.
adulterant, allegiant, antagonize, anthology, antsy, arrant, arrogant, bouffant, brilliant, buoyant, cantaloupe, cantina and 10 more...
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adjectives
veritable, pejorative, pertinent, benign, gullible, specious, delinquent, evocative, delirious, snippy, pithy, lenient and 69 more...
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self-glorification
words that describe me, for better or for worse.
petulant, obsessive, cinephile, neurotic, fashion, grammar, narcissism, garrulous, poor, exorbitant, antsy, obstreperous and 23 more...
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Animal Magnetism
Adjectives derived from animal names but used to describe people
dogged, foxy, bearish, bullish, pigheaded, birdbrained, catty, wolfish, bullheaded, horsy, weaselly, squirrelly and 39 more...
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girt by sea
Favourites from the Macquarie, Australia's national dictionary.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for antsy.
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