Usually means: Waiting with anticipation or hope.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word expectantly:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectantly: Merriam-Webster
  2. expectantly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expectantly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. expectantly: Vocabulary.com
  5. expectantly: Wordnik
  6. expectantly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. expectantly: Wiktionary
  8. expectantly: Dictionary.com
  9. expectantly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. expectantly: Rhymezone
  11. expectantly: FreeDictionary.org
  12. expectantly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. expectantly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectantly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectantly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectantly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. expectantly: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expectantly)

adverb:  In an expectant manner.

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