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 and divides as y-ear-nin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.