Dreamily
['drimɪli]
Definition
(adv.) in a dreamy manner; '`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily'.
Typed by Lillian--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.
Typist: Willard
Examples
- These revived impressions succeeded each other quickly and dreamily in Lydgate's mind while the tea was being brewed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He lit the fire, Eustacia dreamily observing him from her couch. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Whereat Caliphronas, leaning over the taffrail and looking dreamily at the shores of his native land, broke out into song. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She says it with a kind of scorn--though not of Rosa--and sits brooding, looking dreamily at her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She smiled dreamily upon the possibility; but he perceived that to dream of it sufficed her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Typist: Willard