dreamily
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3.2
- adverb
- /ˈdriːmɪli/
:
soñadoramente
- She stared dreamily out of the window, lost in her own thoughts about the future.
- said dreamily
- gazed dreamily
- smiled dreamily
Examples
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I lay there dreamily for a moment, wondering where she had gone.
Academic text (2009) -
"I can wait forever, though," she says dreamily, "I have the patience of a saint."
Fiction book (1995) -
The judge looked at her dreamily and said, "I love your hair."
Fiction book (1994) -
"Who knows, who knows?" he says dreamily to nothing and everything.
Fiction book (1991) -
Helen looked at her toast dreamily, the golden letters against the almost black.
Fiction book (1994) -
Robin is sitting dreamily on a chair in front of the open refrigerator.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Yes," said Richard dreamily, leaning against the glass but looking back into the past.
Fiction book (1995) -
A darling little boy sits at the windowsill, dreamily staring out.
Fiction book (1992) -
We were climbing steeply, up and over, lifted dreamily, almost as if by a flight of the imagination.
Fiction book (1993) -
Instead of glancing over his twitchy shoulders, he gazed dreamily into the endlessly illuminated sky.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
In a calm way as if lost in thought
In a dreamy, absent-minded way
How Dreamy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dreamily comes from dream + -ly, where dream means the pictures or hopes you have in sleep or when you imagine things, and -ly turns a word into a way of acting, so dreamily means acting 'as if in a dream' or being lost in thought.