TENSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tensely mean? 

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

1. in a tense manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENSELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a tense manner

Context example:

he sat down tensely

Pertainym:

tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)

 Context examples 

He lived tensely.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There, dimly outlined at the top window, I could see the shadow of a head, a woman’s head, gazing tensely, rigidly, out into the night, waiting with breathless suspense for the renewal of that interrupted message.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have more than once observed that in my second character, my faculties seemed sharpened to a point and my spirits more tensely elastic; thus it came about that, where Jekyll perhaps might have succumbed, Hyde rose to the importance of the moment.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)