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- WISTFUL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of WISTFUL is full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy; also : inspiring such yearning How to use wistful in a sentence Wistful Has a Wishful History
- WISTFUL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
WISTFUL definition: 1 sad and thinking about something that is impossible or in the past: 2 sad and thinking about… Learn more
- WISTFUL Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Wistful definition: characterized by melancholy or longing See examples of WISTFUL used in a sentence
- Wistful - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
A thoughtful or pensive mood centered on something good in the past that is missed or something not so good in the present that could have been better "if only" something had gone differently — these things make for a wistful outlook
- WISTFUL definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Someone who is wistful is rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it
- Wistful - definition of wistful by The Free Dictionary
Define wistful wistful synonyms, wistful pronunciation, wistful translation, English dictionary definition of wistful adj 1 Full of melancholy longing or wishful yearning: "She seemed wistful for the old days when I'd hung around her all the time" 2 Expressing sadness
- wistful adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of wistful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- wistful - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Presumably from *whistful, from whist (“silent”) + -ful, based on older wistly It is implausible that it derives from wishful, the required sound change being wishful → *wisful → wistful, which could not occur in Modern English, particularly not with wishful continuing in use
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