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wistful::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pensive |
| Derivation | wistfulness |
the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty.
Examples of wistful
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Another title which prompted sighs of wistful nostalgia is Disney's Epic Mickey.
From the telegraph.co.uk
On their maiden track, a guesting Deschanel does her wistful country-folk thing.
From the washingtonpost.com
The fifth-graders at Villa Cresta were wistful about the end of the school year.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Lugubrious and wistful, Low's music may come across as too melancholic for some.
From the kansas.com
It was not an imagined wistful, youthful, memory that hot days can go on and on.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Thibaudet expertly captures both its wistful qualities and its powerful moments.
From the npr.org
By that wistful reckoning, the last such ingenuous summer came along about 1960.
From the time.com
Webb wrote a wistful ballad about the affair called By the Time I Get to Phoenix.
From the time.com
The lethargy is exacerbated by Bennie's wistful narration as he tells the tale.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Pensive: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
- (wistfully) in a wistful manner; "his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel"
- (wistfulness) a sadly pensive longing
- Wistful (foaled in 1946 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. The daughter of Sun Again and granddaughter of Sun Teddy is best remembered for wins in the Kentucky Oaks, the Coaching Club American Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. ...
- Full of yearning or longing; sad and thoughtful
- (wistfulness) The state or characteristic of being wistful
- (wistfully) longingly; sadly remembering something nice
- (adj.) full of yearning; musingly sad (Since her pet rabbit died, Edda missed it terribly and was wistful all day long.)
- Full of longing or unfulfilled desire
