opposite of wistfully
John waited wistfully for the cake on the table.
He walked wistfully away from the train as it pulled out of the station.
sadly, mournfully, wistfully, melancholically
He watched wistfully as the other boys received their awards. Home sick for the day, she gazed wistfully out the window at her friends playing in the snow. Staring wistfully at the thin dancers, she vowed to lose 30 pounds.
the man was wistfully and thought he should help his friend get up because he has a cast.
"Wistfully" means deep in thought in a melancholy way, as though deeply hoping for something.
No, the word 'wistfully' is an adverb, a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.The word 'wistfully' is the adverb form of the adjective 'wistful'.Examples:Mother wistfully turned the pages of the photo album. (modifies the verb 'turned')It's a wistfully humorous play. (modifies the adjective 'humorous')A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing.The nouns in the example sentences are: mother, pages, album, play.
it's an adverb ex. Wistfully, he gazed one last time at his home valley he would not again see for God only knew how many years....then swung around and resumed his brisk march over the hill and down to port where his ship was waiting...
Synonyms for the word wistfully: unhappily, cheerlessly, dejectedly, dismally, dolefully, gloomily, grievously, joylessly, morosely, sorrowfully
Gloomily and sorrowfully.
i would say happy,joyfull.