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Wistful

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Adjective

1. pensive, wistful

showing pensive sadness

Example Sentences:
'the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wistful

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adjective
sadly pensive, esp about something yearned for

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Wistful

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adjective
showing or expressing vague yearnings; longing pensively

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wistful

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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" (David Huddle).
2. Expressing sadness or yearning: "She saw the wisftul eyes grow yet more wistful, the lips curve to a pleading smile" (Dorothy Parker).

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