ANXIOUSLY Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

anxiously

adverb

Definition of anxiously

as in apprehensively

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Recent Examples of anxiously 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 With college football beginning in earnest this Saturday, many fans are anxiously awaiting to see how the chips will fall in a wide open season in 2026. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 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 And these new contestants are now all anxiously waiting to find out who among them will be literally hand-selected as Traitors courtesy of a secret shoulder touch by Cumming. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026 Brave Irene wrestles the dress and rides the box downhill like a sled in order to reach the duchess, who is anxiously waiting for her gown. — Liz Rosenberg, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026

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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

The company’s twin values of work and quirk can sit uneasily in the distractible, self-serious fashion world, to the point that fashion at Hermès has historically been regarded as something of an oxymoron.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 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

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Bartholow reported to her superiors at SEIU California that Regan stood uncomfortably close and hovered over her at the bar at a fundraiser for the state Senate leader in San Diego in March as tensions flared over the billionaire tax.

— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
But inflation has been uncomfortably high since the pandemic and has been creeping higher again this year – a sign of an economy that is running too hot.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of uncomfortably

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He was diagnosed with sepsis, blood clots in the lungs, critically low blood pressure, fast heart rate and severe malnutrition.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
Most critically, cultivate board-level thinking—focus on governance, long-term value and enterprise risk, not just HR execution.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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