uneasily

B2
US /əˈniːzəli/
adv Freq #76505

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    In an uneasy manner.

    On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.

  2. 2
    adv

    with anxiety or apprehension

Etymology

From uneasy + -ly.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adv · in an uneasy manner. hesitantlyrestlessly
2 adv · with anxiety or apprehension anxiously

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