Usually means: Desiring with great intensity, yearning.
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  1. longingly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. longingly: Merriam-Webster
  3. longingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. longingly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. longingly: Vocabulary.com
  6. longingly: Wordnik
  7. longingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. longingly: Wiktionary
  9. Longingly, longingly: Dictionary.com
  10. Longingly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. longingly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. longingly: Rhymezone
  13. Longingly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. longingly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. longingly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. longingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. longingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. longingly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a longing manner, with desire, yearningly.

Similar:
yearningly, with longing, wantingly, desiringly, hungeringly, wishingly, hankeringly, desirously, lustfully, wistfully, more...

Opposite:
disinterestedly, indifferently, uninterestedly

Types:
wistfully, yearningly, nostalgically, piningly, more...

Phrases:
look longingly, stare longingly, looked longingly back, look at longingly, to look longingly, more...



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Similar:
yearningly, with longing, wantingly, desiringly, hungeringly, wishingly, hankeringly, desirously, lustfully, wistfully, more...

Opposite:
disinterestedly, indifferently, uninterestedly

Types:
wistfully, yearningly, nostalgically, piningly, more...

Phrases:
look longingly, stare longingly, looked longingly back, look at longingly, to look longingly, to gaze at longingly, watch longingly, gaze longingly, to look at longingly, looks longingly, more...



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