anxiously

Definition

In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

Etymology

From anxious + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child."
• "He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side."
• "'Even in summer, Grannie?' Heidi persisted anxiously."