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Definition of Dreamily
1. Adverb. In a dreamy manner. "`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily"
Definition of Dreamily
1. adv. As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.
Definition of Dreamily
1. Adverb. In a dreamy manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dreamily
1. dreamy [adv] - See also: dreamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreamily
Literary usage of Dreamily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: Including Lynnfield, Saugus by Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall (1865)
"And above all, old ocean sustains his integrity — whether calmly sleeping in the
summer sunshine, raving in the winter storm, or rolling dreamily beneath ..."
2. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
""Perhaps," he went on, dreamily, "we walked hand in hand in that other life—as
I hope to in this. I have been dead so long! THE NATIONAL PALACE With the ..."
3. Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868)
"... the variegated trees were reflected dreamily and indistinctly; a broad belt
of bright and diversified colours shining in the water beneath. ..."
4. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1876)
"I shall dreamily hope to corns back again at some indefinite time; rather foolishly
perhaps, for it will tend to take the substance out of my life iu my own ..."
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