apprehensively

1. 1.

   with anxiety or apprehension

   “we watched anxiously”

   Synonymsanxiouslyuneasily

Questions about apprehensively

What does apprehensively mean?

apprehensively means "with anxiety or apprehension".

How many syllables are in apprehensively?

apprehensively has 6 syllables: ap-pre-hen-si-ve-ly. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for apprehensively?

Close synonyms include anxiously, uneasily. 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 apprehensively a common word?

apprehensively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.