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apprehensively

adverb

as in anxiously

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Recent Examples of apprehensively 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apprehensively
  1. anxiously
  2. uneasily
  3. uncomfortably
Adverb
  • 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
Definition of anxiously
Adverb
  • But something about this prospect still sat uneasily with Umaga.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of uneasily
Adverb
  • In 17 different instances, ESPN cut to a camera pinned on Florida offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner, so uncomfortably close the viewer could see his thoughts forming.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Once more Sanders got uncomfortably close to Tallman, and Tallman responded by pushing him again, Tallman recalled.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of uncomfortably

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“Apprehensively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprehensively. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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