Apprehensively
Apprehensively adverb - With anxiety or apprehension.
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Synonyms for Apprehensively
Skeptically and apprehensively are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Skeptically" instead an adverb "Apprehensively".
Skeptically
Skeptically adverb - With distrust.
Usage example: the researchers' findings should be received skeptically until they can be replicated by other scientists
Apprehensively and skeptically are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Apprehensively" instead an adverb "Skeptically".
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Related pairs
- askance and apprehensively
- askance and skeptically
- wildly and apprehensively
- wildly and skeptically
- ambiguously and apprehensively
- ambiguously and skeptically
- anxiously and apprehensively
- anxiously and skeptically
- uneasily and apprehensively
- uneasily and skeptically
- timidly and apprehensively
- timidly and skeptically
- distrustfully and apprehensively
- distrustfully and skeptically
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