wistful

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full of yearning or longing
sad and thoughtful
{a} earnest, attentive, full of thought or desire
Someone who is wistful is rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up. thinking sadly about something you would like to have but cannot have, especially something that you used to have in the past (wistly (15-18 centuries), probably from whist (15-20 centuries); influenced by wishful)
full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds
Longing; wishful; desirous
full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"
Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative
{s} yearningly pensive, dreamy with longing (especially for things past); melancholy, sad
showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
wistful gaze
yearning glance, longing look
wist
Simple past tense and past participle of wit

And lang ere witless Jeanie wist, / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!.

wistfulness
The state or characteristic of being wistful
wistfully
{a} earnestly, attentively
wist
To know, be aware of
wist
Knew
wist
obsolete, past of wit
wist
Past tense and past participle of wit
wistfully
in a wistful manner; "his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel
wistfully
In a wistful manner}
wistfully
in a wistful manner, longingly, yearningly
wistfulness
a sadly pensive longing
wistfulness
{i} pensive yearning, dreamy longing (especially for someone or something in the past); sadness; melancholy
wistfulness
The quality of being wistful
wistful
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