EAGERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eagerly mean? 

• EAGERLY (adverb)
  The adverb EAGERLY has 1 sense:

1. with eagerness; in an eager manner

  Familiarity information: EAGERLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAGERLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With eagerness; in an eager manner

Synonyms:

eagerly; thirstily

Context example:

the news was eagerly awaited

Pertainym:

eager (having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy)

 Context examples 

Then he looked back eagerly and questioningly at the master.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I assure you, Mr. Omer, she has said so to me,” I returned eagerly, “when we were both children.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Tell me, please! I like to know all about the—the boys," said Jo eagerly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When the man brought him water he drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by chunk, from the man’s hand.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“You have really got it!” he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"When did you write it?" she demanded eagerly. Then, reproachfully, "And you never showed it to me."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I looked eagerly, and in the window of my own room saw Mina.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She wondered, and questioned him eagerly; but in vain.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"A question which will, no doubt, be eagerly discussed in every scientific society in Europe and America," the Professor answered.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)