uneasily

1. 1.

   with anxiety or apprehension

   “we watched anxiously”

   Synonymsanxiouslyapprehensively

Questions about uneasily

What does uneasily mean?

uneasily means "with anxiety or apprehension".

How many syllables are in uneasily?

uneasily has 4 syllables: u-nea-si-ly. The stress falls on "nea". In IPA it is /əˈnizəli/.

What is another word for uneasily?

Close synonyms include anxiously, 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 uneasily a common word?

uneasily 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.