wistful

Adjective Satellite

• showing pensive sadness
  • "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

Adj

• Full of longing or yearning.
• Sad and thoughtful.

Adjective

• Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing.

Examples

• He gazed WISTFUL at the blank spaces on the board, wishing for the perfect seven-letter word.
• His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days.

Synonyms

pensive, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, desirous, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched, yearnful

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