APPREHENSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apprehensively mean? 

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

1. with anxiety or apprehension

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPREHENSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With anxiety or apprehension

Synonyms:

anxiously; apprehensively; uneasily

Context example:

we watched anxiously

Pertainym:

apprehensive (in fear or dread of possible evil or harm)

 Context examples 

Buck watched them apprehensively as they proceeded to take down the tent and load the sled.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His wife fluttered apprehensively into the breach.

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

Now if he'd married her, and—You don't mind, Mart? she queried apprehensively.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Their mother looked apprehensively in their direction.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

While he spoke, Maria was looking apprehensively round at Edmund in full expectation that he must oppose such an enlargement of the plan as this: so contrary to all their first protestations; but Edmund said nothing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Till this year, every long vacation since their marriage had been divided between Hartfield and Donwell Abbey; but all the holidays of this autumn had been given to sea-bathing for the children, and it was therefore many months since they had been seen in a regular way by their Surry connexions, or seen at all by Mr. Woodhouse, who could not be induced to get so far as London, even for poor Isabella's sake; and who consequently was now most nervously and apprehensively happy in forestalling this too short visit.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

White Fang scanned him apprehensively when he came out.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Everybody, save Beauty Smith, looked apprehensively, the fear of the police strong upon them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)