wistful
21wistful — adjective having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing. Derivatives wistfully adverb wistfulness noun Origin C17: appar. from obs. wistly intently , influenced by wishful …
22wistful — a. 1. Contemplative, meditative, reflective, musing, thoughtful, pensive. 2. Longing, eager. See wishful …
23wistful — adj 1. melancholy, yearning, longing, desirous, wishful; sorrowful, sad, heartsick, forlorn, woeful, woebegone, disconsolate, dismal, triste; sulky, moody, gloomy, glum, somber, sullen; dispirited, cheerless, joyless. 2. pensive, dreaming, dreamy …
24wistful — wist·ful …
25wistful — [ˈwɪstf(ə)l] adj slightly sad because you want to have or to do something wistfully adv …
26wistful — wist•ful [[t]ˈwɪst fəl[/t]] adj. 1) characterized by a pensive longing or yearning 2) pensive, esp. in a melancholy way • Etymology: 1605–15; obs. wist quiet, silent, attentive + ful wist′ful•ly, adv. wist′ful•ness, n …
27wistful — /ˈwɪstfəl / (say wistfuhl) adjective 1. pensive or melancholy. 2. showing longing tinged with melancholy; regretful; sad. {obsolete wist attentive (backformation from wistly attentively, variant of whistly; see whist1) + ful} –wistfully, adverb… …
28wistful — adj. (of a person, looks, etc.) yearningly or mournfully expectant or wishful. Derivatives: wistfully adv. wistfulness n. Etymology: app. assim. of obs. wistly (adv.) intently (cf. WHISHT) to wishful, with corresp. change of sense …
29wistful gaze — yearning glance, longing look …
30The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap — Infobox Film name = The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap caption = The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap Theatrical Poster director = Charles Barton producer = Robert Arthur writer = John Grant Frederic I. Rinaldo Robert Lees starring = Bud Abbott Lou… …
