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unwishfully

unwishfully adverb: in an unwishful manner; without wishing.

Adverb

unwishfully (comparative more unwishfully, superlative most unwishfully)

  1. (rare) In an unwishful manner; without wishing.
    • Again we descend, perhaps to the dreary shore of some dead sea of life, where we may wander on unhopefully, nay, even unwishfully. We would lie down and die if we could do so sinlessly; and we wonder that sin should be in the wish.1902, Mary Linskill, In Exchange for a Soul, page 126

Forms of unwishfully

comparativemore unwishfully
superlativemost unwishfully

Origin of unwishfully

From unwishful + -ly.

Questions about unwishfully

What does unwishfully mean?
Unwishfully means in an unwishful manner; without wishing.
What part of speech is unwishfully?
Unwishfully is an adverb.

Words near unwishfully in the dictionary

  1. unwishable
  2. unwished
  3. unwished-for
  4. unwishes
  5. unwishful
  6. unwishfully
  7. unwishfulness
  8. unwishing
  9. unwist
  10. unwistful
  11. unwit

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