wistfully

1. 1.

   in a wistful manner

   “his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel”

Questions about wistfully

What does wistfully mean?

wistfully means "in a wistful manner".

How many syllables are in wistfully?

wistfully has 3 syllables: wist-ful-ly. The stress falls on "wist". In IPA it is /ˈwɪstfəli/.

Is wistfully a common word?

wistfully 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.