Definitions for angsts

angsts angst

Spelling: [ahngkst, angst]
IPA: /ɑŋkst, æŋst/

Angsts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in angsts (agnsst).

Definitions for angsts

noun

  1. a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.

Origin of angsts

1840-50; German Angst fear, anxiety, Old High German angust (cognate with Middle Low German angest, Middle Dutch anxt), equivalent to ang- (akin to eng narrow, constricted) + -st abstract nom

Examples for angsts

The sense of angst was palpable among the White House press corps.

Heightening his angst, Warren pines for precocious Jessica (Gevinson).

Did you have angst last Sunday night deciding whether to watch the Emmys, Breaking Bad, or the Dexter series finale?

In June, he called an Italian high-school student who wrote to him in angst about finding a job after she graduated.

And there must also be angst in Washington, which has, since 2003, relied on the Chinese to rein in their troublesome ally for us.

Even before that ode to Jewish angst and masturbation hit the bookstores in 1969, Roth was a Yaddo veteran.

To be fair, the angst around the prisoner release isn't just rightist propaganda—it's also actually frustrating to many.

And I admit I look back on my teenage self and think a lot of my angst sounds like an Onion article.

She felt claustrophobic, entrapped like an exotic bird, but despite her angst she lacked the courage to leave.

Who knew that angst had so many faces, or that thick paint had so much to say?

Word Value for angsts
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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