imploringly

Examples

• All

• Imploringly, if by your own admission you've hurt me, then I have a right to know.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Devaney looks at Frank imploringly.

  Fiction book (1992)

• "But what should we do now?" Theo asked imploringly.

  Fiction book (1991)

• A strange man stood at the door of my office looking at me gloomily and imploringly.

  Fiction book (1996)

• "I will," promised Uncle Peretz imploringly and clasped her to him.

  Fiction book (1998)

• "She looked imploringly at Uncle Mac, who stood near the rhubarb, clearly dismayed."

  Fiction book (1993)

• He was looking at her strangely, imploringly, as if he didn't want her to go.

  Fiction book (1997)

• With an anguished, lost wail, Larissa stuck out her hands imploringly toward the floating ball.

  Fiction book (1992)

• In the left foreground, Aquinas is seated, leaning back against one angel whose hands grip his shoulders; he looks very much like a tired boxer between rounds, and his upturned face looks imploringly at the angel.

  Fiction book (1998)

• At the sight of him, she reached out imploringly and said, "Please tell us, Van."

Synonyms

P

pleadingly

vsimploringly

1 4.3

In a soft, urgent way that asks for something

is earnest asking but may be calmer or less emotionally urgent

B

beseechingly

vsimploringly

• Formal

1 7.8

In a begging way that shows strong need or hope

is earnest asking but tends to be less forcefully intense

E

entreatingly

vsimploringly

• Literature

7.4

To ask for something in a pleading way

is more about urgent begging than plain sincere appeal

S

suppliantly

vsimploringly

• Formal

8.4

In a humble, begging way to ask for something

is earnest asking but often without the strong humility or submissiveness

I

importunately

vsimploringly

• Formal

9.9

In a way that keeps asking and annoys people

is earnest asking but lacks the annoying, intrusive persistence of that

Antonyms

I

indifferently

4 4.0

Showing no interest or care

How Earnest

desperately

366 3.6

imploringly

• Specialized

1 6.1

pleadingly

1 4.3

earnestly

20 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology