'Wistful' definitions:
Definition of 'wistful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [syn: pensive, wistful]
Definition of 'Wistful'
From: GCIDE
- Wistful \Wist"ful\, a. [For wishful; perhaps influenced by wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly (from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See Wish.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Longing; wishful; desirous. [1913 Webster]
- Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative. [1913 Webster]
- That he who there at such an hour hath been, Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot. --Byron. [1913 Webster] -- {Wist"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Wist"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wistful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ashamed,
- atrabiliar,
- atrabilious,
- blue,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- excogitating,
- full of remorse,
- funky,
- hankering,
- homesick,
- honing,
- ideative,
- introspective,
- languishing,
- longing,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- museful,
- musing,
- noetic,
- nostalgic,
- pensive,
- pining,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repining,
- rueful,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- serious,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- sober,
- sorry,
- speculative,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- tristful,
- unhappy about,
- wishful,
- yearnful,
- yearning