dreamily

1. 1.

   in a dreamy manner

   “`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily”

   Synonymsmoonilydreamfully

Questions about dreamily

What does dreamily mean?

dreamily means "in a dreamy manner".

How many syllables are in dreamily?

dreamily has 4 syllables: dre-a-mi-ly. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for dreamily?

Close synonyms include moonily, dreamfully. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dreamily a common word?

dreamily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.