Usually means: With anxiety, apprehension, or dread.
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  1. fearfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. fearfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fearfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fearfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fearfully, fearfully: Wordnik
  6. fearfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fearfully: Wiktionary
  8. fearfully: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Fearfully, fearfully: Dictionary.com
  10. Fearfully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. fearfully: Rhymezone
  12. Fearfully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. fearfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. fearfully: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fearfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fearfully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. fearfully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fearfully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a fearful manner; characterized by fear.
▸ adverb:  (UK, dated) very; very much.

Similar:
fearingly, scaredly, afraidly, frightenedly, terrifiedly, frightfully, frighteningly, unfearfully, awfully, quailingly, more...

Opposite:
bravely, courageously, fearlessly

Types:
anxiously, worriedly, apprehensively, uneasily, tensely, more...

Phrases:
said fearfully, she said fearfully, says fearfully, to run fearfully, fearfully ask, more...

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Similar:
fearingly, scaredly, afraidly, frightenedly, terrifiedly, frightfully, frighteningly, unfearfully, awfully, quailingly, more...

Opposite:
bravely, courageously, fearlessly

Types:
anxiously, worriedly, apprehensively, uneasily, tensely, more...

Phrases:
said fearfully, she said fearfully, says fearfully, to run fearfully, fearfully ask, to run fearfully away in an aimless way, look fearfully, fearfully and awkwardly, more...

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark red,     deep purple,     midnight blue, more...



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