Word.ws English Dictionary

wishingly

wishingly adverb: while wishing or yearning.

Adverb

wishingly (comparative more wishingly, superlative most wishingly)

  1. While wishing or yearning.
    • Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly, wishingly, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced […]1841, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, Course of Lectures on the Scripture Types, page 305

Forms of wishingly

comparativemore wishingly
superlativemost wishingly

Origin of wishingly

From wishing + -ly.

Questions about wishingly

What does wishingly mean?
Wishingly means while wishing or yearning.
What part of speech is wishingly?
Wishingly is an adverb.

Words near wishingly in the dictionary

  1. wishing someone ill
  2. wishing upon a star
  3. wishing well
  4. wishing wells
  5. wishing you well
  6. wishingly
  7. wishings
  8. Wishkah
  9. wishless
  10. wishlessness
  11. wishlist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wishingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wishingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wishingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.