'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]

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