Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a yearning manner;
- Example: "he spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'"[syn: longingly, yearningly]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Longingly \Long"ing*ly\, adv.
With longing. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
longingly
adv 1: in a yearning manner; "he spent the rest of the act
gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the
illuminated word `Exit'" [syn: longingly, yearningly]