Usually means: With anxiety about possible outcomes.
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  1. apprehensively: Merriam-Webster
  2. apprehensively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apprehensively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. apprehensively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Apprehensively, apprehensively: Wordnik
  6. apprehensively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. apprehensively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Apprehensively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. apprehensively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. apprehensively: Rhymezone
  11. Apprehensively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. apprehensively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. apprehensively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. apprehensively: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. apprehensively: Wiktionary
  16. Apprehensively, apprehensively: Dictionary.com
  17. apprehensively: FreeDictionary.org

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  1. apprehensively: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  in an apprehensive manner; with apprehension

Similar:
anxiously, uneasily, inapprehensively, apprehendingly, afraidly, trepidatiously, preattentively, anticipatively, worriedly, venturingly, more...

Phrases:
said apprehensively, say something apprehensively, more...

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Similar:
anxiously, uneasily, inapprehensively, apprehendingly, afraidly, trepidatiously, preattentively, anticipatively, worriedly, venturingly, more...

Phrases:
said apprehensively, say something apprehensively, more...



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