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Carefully vs Anxiously - What's the difference?

carefully | anxiously |

As adverbs the difference between carefully and anxiously

is that carefully is sorrowfully while anxiously is in an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

carefully

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (lb) Sorrowfully.
  • *, III.8:
  • *:there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne.
  • With care; attentively, circumspectly.
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  • *:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ΒΆ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

    • anxiously

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
    • He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.
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    • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.