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wistful

adjective

1 wistful

Showing pensive sadness:
— The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty.

synonym: pensive.

Roget 451: thinking etc. v.; thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, ... show more

Roget 459: careful regardful, heedful; taking care etc. v.; particular; prudent etc. (cautious) 864; considerate; thoughtful etc. ... show more

Roget 821: feeling etc. v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling etc. n.. warm, ... show more

Roget 865: desirous; desiring etc. v.; inclined etc. (willing) 602; partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, ... show more


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 ... show more.

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