Definition of "longingly"
adverb
comparative more longingly, superlative most longingly
In a longing manner, with desire, yearningly.
Quotations
As she stepped nearer and peered longingly out, she saw something else: she saw, only a little way below the window, the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochère. The sight filled her with longing. If only, now, she were out there!
1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 7, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page