longingly

1. 1.

   in a yearning manner

   “he spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'”

   Synonymsyearningly

Questions about longingly

What does longingly mean?

longingly means "in a yearning manner".

How many syllables are in longingly?

longingly has 3 syllables: lon-gin-gly. The stress falls on "lon". In IPA it is /ˈlɔŋɪŋli/.

What is another word for longingly?

Close synonyms include yearningly. 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 longingly a common word?

longingly 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.