adj. 25B6; adjective
I'm anxious about her : WORRIED, concerned, apprehensive, fearful, uneasy, perturbed, troubled, bothered, disturbed, distressed, fretful, agitated, nervous, edgy, unquiet, on edge, tense, overwrought, worked up, keyed up, worried sick, with one's stomach in knots, with one's heart in one's mouth; informal uptight, on tenterhooks, with butterflies in one's stomach, like a cat on a hot tin roof, jittery, jumpy, twitchy, in a stew/twitter, all of a dither/lather, in a tizz/tizzy, het up; Brit. informal strung up, windy, having kittens, in a (flat) spin, like a cat on hot bricks; N. Amer. informal antsy, spooky, squirrelly, in a twit; Austral./NZ informal toey; dated overstrung.
she was anxious for news : EAGER, keen, desirous, impatient.
carefree, unconcerned.