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Eagerly vs Carefully - What's the difference?

eagerly | carefully |

As adverbs the difference between eagerly and carefully

is that eagerly is in an eager manner while carefully is (lb) sorrowfully.

eagerly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In an eager manner.
  • Synonyms

    * heartily, with a will

    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.