anxiously

adverb

Definition of anxiouslynext
as in apprehensively

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Recent Examples of anxiously Instead of anxiously texting every hour or laying on a guilt trip, try finding a consistent time to check in every week. — Joy Harden Bradford, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Your family and pets anxiously wait outside for the firefighters, counting on the heroes that will soon discover the source of smoke and save your home. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026 Fans of Jackie, one half of the avian power couple whom thousands of people regularly view via live webcams near their nest, have since anxiously waited for news. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 And Northlanders are already anxiously awaiting its grand opening. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 27 July 2026 And count the Packers among teams waiting anxiously for good news about their recovering star. — Mike Jones, New York Times, 27 July 2026 In West Africa, some researchers are anxiously checking to ensure that levels of resistance there have not reached the East African level. — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Biden’s Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, anxiously asked his staff how Israel could justify this scale of destruction. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 Singer Gibby Haynes paces anxiously at centerstage, laughing maniacally into a megaphone. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anxiously
  1. apprehensively
  2. uneasily
  3. uncomfortably
  4. critically
Adverb
  • This show of sweetness fighting back against a sense of hopelessness builds an apprehensively brighter perspective than earlier work.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Definition of apprehensively
Adverb
  • Both countries are uneasily preoccupied with their trajectory these days.
    — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This oversharing of small details exists uneasily alongside a surprising lack of reflection on the book’s ostensible themes.
    — Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of uneasily
Adverb
  • And survey data reported by Bloomberg found that 64 percent of young men who trade stocks daily describe themselves as failures, roughly double the rate among less frequent traders and uncomfortably close to the rate among daily gamblers.
    — Daniel Schlaepfer, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Zuckerberg positions Meta’s commitment to open-source as critical to challenging Chinese open-source models from DeepSeek and Moonshot which have been getting uncomfortably close to the American frontier.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of uncomfortably
Adverb
  • More critically, the obstruction blocks the flow of water and nutrients.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Kabita’s hemoglobin levels were critically low, leaving her short of oxygen and straining her heart.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of critically

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