anxious vs nervous

anxious and nervous both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anxious	No	Yes	No	No
nervous	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, anxious and nervous are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of anxious include queasy, uneasy, unquiet.

anxious (adjective)	nervous (adjective)
eagerly desirous	of or relating to the nervous system
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety	unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
	excited in anticipation
	easily agitated
	causing or fraught with or showing anxiety