anxiously

adverb

Definition of anxiouslynext
as in apprehensively

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Recent Examples of anxiously The young magicians hold hands, waiting anxiously as the results are announced. — Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026 Waiting anxiously on the edge of your seat for GTA VI to finally hit your PC? — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026 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 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
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
  • For protesters, that record sits uneasily besides the prime minister’s denunciation of violence against women.
    — Amrita Basu, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Around him, media members watched uneasily as event organizers scrambled to determine the winner of the women’s marathon.
    — Vivian Yao, Baltimore Sun, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of uneasily
Adverb
  • With the national debt having just risen above £3 trillion, taking it uncomfortably close to the size of its GDP, the government is in no position for largesse.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Unlike university, security here is almost uncomfortably overbearing.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of uncomfortably
Adverb
  • The money will go to conservation groups and local partners working on species the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies as endangered, critically endangered, or extinct in the wild.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Aliso Viejo mother Tommi Jo Mejer was charged with felony child endangerment in April after her 14-year-old son was involved in an e-motorcycle crash that critically injured an 81-year-old former Marine.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of critically

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