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ANXIOUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With anxiety or apprehension
Example:
we watched anxiously
Synonyms:
anxiously; apprehensively; uneasily
Classified under:
Pertainym:
anxious (causing or fraught with or showing anxiety)
Context examples:
The intelligence, which had been so anxiously announced to her, she was now to be anxiously announcing to another.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She could scarcely eat any dinner, and when they afterwards returned to the drawing room, seemed anxiously listening to the sound of every carriage.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“You won't forget?” he inquired anxiously.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Cast on another culpon, John, and stir the broth with thy sword-sheath,” growled Johnston, looking anxiously for the twentieth time at the reeking pot.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On Tuesday there was a large party assembled at Longbourn; and the two who were most anxiously expected, to the credit of their punctuality as sportsmen, were in very good time.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it much serious consideration.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Mr. Morland has behaved vastly handsome indeed,” said the gentle Mrs. Thorpe, looking anxiously at her daughter.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You will not hear of my destruction, and you will anxiously await my return.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was useless for me to explain to him that his presence was an intrusion, for my Italian was even more limited than his English, so I shrugged my shoulders resignedly, and continued to look out anxiously for my friend.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He looked about him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
