anxiously

1. 1.

   with anxiety or apprehension

   “we watched anxiously”

   Synonymsuneasilyapprehensively

Questions about anxiously

What does anxiously mean?

anxiously means "with anxiety or apprehension".

How many syllables are in anxiously?

anxiously has 3 syllables: an-xiou-sly. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæŋkʃəsli/.

What is another word for anxiously?

Close synonyms include uneasily, apprehensively. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anxiously a common word?

anxiously is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.