wantingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With desire; yearningly.
Example Sentences
- "This may be a tough pill to swallow but what Christ is saying is if you look wantingly, powerfully, or lustfully after someone, you have committed adultery. This is true for the married person reading this and the single person."
Etymology
From wanting + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more wantingly (comparative)
most wantingly (superlative)