wistfuladjective
uk/ˈwɪst.fəl/us/ˈwɪst.fəl/sad and thinking about something that is impossible or in the past:
a wistful smile
I thought about those days in Spain and grew wistful.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- moody
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- wretched
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wistfully
adverb uk/ˈwɪst.fəl.i/us/ˈwɪst.fəl.i/
"I would love to go back to Venice," he said wistfully.
wistfulness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈwɪst.fəl.nəs/us/ˈwɪst.fəl.nəs/