wistful
11wistful — adjective a) full of yearning or longing His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days. b) sad and thoughtful …
12wistful — adj. Wistful is used with these nouns: ↑expression, ↑longing, ↑nostalgia, ↑sigh, ↑yearning …
13wistful — wist|ful [ˈwıstfəl] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: wistly with close attention (15 18 centuries), probably from whist quiet (15 20 centuries); influenced by wishful] thinking sadly about something you would like to have but cannot have, especially …
14wistful — adjective feeling rather sad and thoughtful, especially because of something that you would like but can no longer have: wistful memories of her lost youth wistfully adverb wistfulness noun (U) …
15wistful — adjective the old photos gave me a wistful feeling Syn: nostalgic, yearning, longing; plaintive, regretful, rueful, melancholy, mournful, elegiac; pensive, reflective, contemplative …
16wistful — wistfully, adv. wistfulness, n. /wist feuhl/, adj. 1. characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning. 2. pensive, esp. in a melancholy way. [1605 15; obs. wist quiet, silent, attentive (var. of WHIST2) + FUL] Syn. 2. reflective, musing,… …
17wistful — Synonyms and related words: ashamed, atrabiliar, atrabilious, blue, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, conscience smitten, conscience stricken, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating,… …
18wistful — adj productive …
19wistful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. musing, pensive, thoughtful; desirous, wishful, hopeful; eager; craving, yearning. See desire, feeling, thought. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. nostalgic, melancholy, sad, longing, yearning, pensive,… …
20wistful — wist·ful || wɪstfÊŠl adj. yearningly pensive, dreamy with longing (especially for things past); melancholy, sad …
