| 单词 | wistful |
| 释义 | wistful (once / 533 pages) adj Only one letter separates the two words, but "wishful" is having hope for something, and wistful is having sadness or melancholy about something. "Wist" isn't even a word that's used anymore, but you can still be wistful. People who appear wistful often show a longing for something or a look of serious reflection. One way to describe the adjective wistful is as the sad appearance of someone looking back and thinking "if only..." A thoughtful or pensive mood centered on something good in the past that is missed or something not so good in the present that could have been better "if only" something had gone differently — these things make for a wistful outlook. WORD FAMILYwistful: wistfulest, wistfully, wistfulness USAGE EXAMPLESAsk researchers like Ng when it will be possible to speak naturally to your digital assistant and they get wistful. Seattle Times(Dec 17, 2016) And it’ll leave you singing “Another Day of Sun,” even if it is through wistful tears. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) Some were mournful, even wistful about the bohemian life they found in the large two-story warehouse. Washington Post(Dec 05, 2016) adj showing pensive sadness the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty Syn pensive sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness |
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