English - Turkish
Definition of wistful in English Turkish dictionary
- efkarlı
- hüzünlü
- istekli
- özlemli
- Düşünceli, dalgın
- wist fulnessisteklilik
- {s} özlemiş
- {s} hasret çeken
- istekle
- {s} arzulu
- wistfullyarzuyla
- (sıfat) istekli, arzulu, hasret çeken, özlemiş, dalgın, düşünceli
- özlemlilik
- özlem dolu
- hasret dolu
- düşünceli
- wistfulness
- efkar
- wistfulness
- isteklilik
- reminiscent, wistful
- Dalgın hatırlatan
- wistfully
- efkarlı bir biçimde
- wistfully
- özlem dolu bir halde
- wistfully
- isteklice
- wistfully
- arzuyla
- wistfully
- özlemli olarak
- wistfully
- istekli olarak
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English - English
Definition of wistful in English English dictionary
- 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
Related Terms
wistful
Hyphenation
wist·fulTurkish pronunciation
wîstfılSynonyms
melancholy, contemplative, desirous, disconsolate, dreaming, dreamy, forlorn, hopeless, meditative, mournful, musing, nostalgic, pensive, plaintive, reflectiveAntonyms
uncaringPronunciation
/ˈwəstfəl/ /ˈwɪstfəl/
Etymology
() Presumably from *whistful, from whist (“silent”) + -ful, based on older wistly. It is implausible that it derives from wishful, the required sound change being wishful → *wisful → wistful, and could not occur in Modern English, particularly not with wishful continuing in use. However, the sense of “longing” appears to be influenced by wishful, with wistful being an ambiguous poetic word.Century Dictionary, at WordNikResimler
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