The phrase "anxious eager" is not correct and may lead to confusion in written English.
It is typically used to express a strong desire or anticipation for something, but the two words have slightly different connotations that can create ambiguity.
Example: "She was anxious eager to hear the results of her job interview, feeling both excitement and nervousness."
Alternatives: "eagerly anticipating" or "nervously excited".
He picked up his quill, reached for his ink pot, and wrote in his diary, "I feel anxious, eager, after something.
Experts from all fields, philosophers, barristers, scientists, classicists, historians, men and women of the world, are all reduced to anxious, eager children: a democracy of fear.
Joe is very much the kind of role that Mr. Hoffman might have played during his "Graduate" days: anxious, eager to please, not sure what is required of him.
There, he was an amoral, manipulative alpha male; Edward, by contrast, is a decent, anxious, eager-to-please, and somewhat wet man-child.
From another perspective, though, the rather lawless and in some ways indefensible business of boxing can seem gloriously, refreshingly unconstrained, especially compared to the increasingly anxious, eager-to-please world of narrative entertainment.
The women from divorced families are over-anxious, eager to please.
He said he was excited, anxious and eager — so eager, in fact, that he swung at the first pitch he saw.
And then there is the unchanging, perpetually nameless and anxious-eager Narrator, with his warily formal diction and his cautious good manners — a born exquisitist telling stories at Lindy's, trying to define a chalk-eater while using the mild word "discouraged".
There is enormous pent-up energy at U-Va., he said, and the faculty are anxious and eager for direction.
Anxious and eager, Alice hovered about her mother's house, still helping with the boys, listening with an inward drooping to endless tales of their exploits.
The women also responded to the same questionnaire five times, indicating how anxious, tense, eager to flee, or uncomfortable they felt on a scale of zero (not at all) to 100 (very).
