ANXIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anxiously mean? 

• ANXIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb ANXIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with anxiety or apprehension

  Familiarity information: ANXIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANXIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With anxiety or apprehension

Synonyms:

anxiously; apprehensively; uneasily

Context example:

we watched anxiously

Pertainym:

anxious (causing or fraught with or showing anxiety)

 Context examples 

"Do you really mean that?" he asked anxiously, following her as she walked away.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Ain't run out?" Bill asked anxiously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I tried again to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously: my inward tranquillity was broken.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He gloated over the spectacle of so much food, watching it anxiously as it went into the mouths of others.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I gazed anxiously at him, with a vague expectation that some terrible fate would dart at him from the curtain of green behind him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Instead, her eyes were fixed anxiously upon her betrothed, and Martin, following her gaze, saw spread on that worthy's asymmetrical features nothing but black and sullen disapproval.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He went, but immediately returned with a letter: —My Friend. Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well to-night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Some of the hunters glanced anxiously aloft.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She looked so attentively and anxiously at me (I even saw her tremble), that I felt now, more than ever, that she had followed my late thoughts.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"But how about my courage?" asked the Lion anxiously.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)