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Synonyms for anxiously
The synonym for anxiously recorded in this bank is uneasily, in the sense "with anxiety or apprehension". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for anxiously
- uneasilyadverb, in the sense "with anxiety or apprehension"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day anxiously is audited in a second meaning.
with anxiety or apprehension
We watched anxiously.
The true synonym
uneasily
Same sentence, swapped: We watched uneasily.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- readily
- eagerly
- promptly
Where anxiously turns up in the game
anxiously is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where anxiously is the trap
- unwaveringlyadverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is intransigently, in the sense "in a way that shows no doubt or hesitation, steadily and firmly", so anxiously is there to be ruled out.
Play anxiously
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so anxiously reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other words at High Camp, then their alphabetical neighbours.
One vocabulary, two jobs
anxiously is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.