Synonyms of anxiously

anxiously

adverb

as in apprehensively

Related Words

• apprehensively
• uneasily
• uncomfortably
• critically
• cynically
• warily
• negatively
• reproachfully
• disapprovingly
• reprovingly
• disparagingly
• unfavorably
• hesitantly
• guardedly
• hesitatingly
• incredulously
• quizzically
• questioningly
• deprecatingly
• captiously
• suspiciously
• skeptically
• unbelievingly
• doubtfully
• charily
• dubiously
• distrustfully
• askance
• reproachingly
• doubtingly
• sideways
• mistrustfully

Dissimilar Words

• positively
• trustingly
• favorably
• confidently
• approvingly
• trustfully
• uncritically
• unquestioningly
• sanguinely
• credulously

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of anxiously

López can still picture her father holding the radio up to the window on rainy or cloudy days and putting his ear close to its speakers, anxiously trying to catch the signal before the Mensajero Rural ended. — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Mitchell will enter free agency in late January, when the Fever will anxiously await her decision. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

What exactly are you supposed to do for those full seven days before a trip besides anxiously waiting to check into your flight? — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2026

Nelza Moktan anxiously sought information about her missing cousin, who also worked as a driver in Rasuwa. — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires. — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

Guillen’s family waited anxiously as the same surgical team who treated Hawley four years before removed part of Guillen’s skull to release the pressure on her brain. — Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

Sunil Pradhan / Anadolu via Getty Images Syed Sadique, who runs a tour agency based in southern India, was waiting anxiously for news on the fate of 57 people traveling with his company, including his tour guide son, Sayed Umar Farook. — Laura Saravia, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026

Joel Dowen paced back and forth on the second floor of his Concord residence as DEA agents waited anxiously outside. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026