• (America) IPA: /ˈæŋ(k).ʃəs.li/

anxiously

1. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

   He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620 ↗:

     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.

• French: anxieusement
• German: besorgt, bang, unruhig
• Italian: ansiosamente
• Portuguese: ansiosamente
• Spanish: con inquietud, con ansiedad, ansiosamente