yearningly

1. 1.

   in a yearning manner

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

   Synonymslongingly

Questions about yearningly

What does yearningly mean?

yearningly means "in a yearning manner".

How many syllables are in yearningly?

yearningly has 4 syllables: y-ear-nin-gly. The stress falls on "ear".

What is another word for yearningly?

Close synonyms include longingly. 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 yearningly a common word?

yearningly 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.