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wistful 音标拼音: [w'ɪstfəl] a. 渴望的,想望的 渴望的,想望的 wistful adj 1: showing pensive sadness; " the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [ synonym: { pensive}, { wistful}] Wistful \ Wist" ful\, a. [ For wishful; perhaps influenced by wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly ( from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See { Wish}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Longing; wishful; desirous. [ 1913 Webster] Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative. [ 1913 Webster] That he who there at such an hour hath been, Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Wist" ful* ly}, adv. -- { Wist" ful* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 72 Moby Thesaurus words for " wistful": ashamed, atrabiliar, atrabilious, blue, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, conscience- smitten, conscience- stricken, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, excogitating, full of remorse, funky, hankering, homesick, honing, ideative, introspective, languishing, longing, meditating, meditative, melancholic, melancholy, mental, museful, musing, noetic, nostalgic, pensive, pining, pondering, prehensive, reflecting, reflective, regretful, remorseful, repining, rueful, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, self- accusing, self- condemning, self- convicting, self- debasing, self- flagellating, self- humiliating, self- punishing, self- reproaching, serious, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, sober, sorry, speculative, thinking, thought, thoughtful, tristful, unhappy about, wishful, yearnful, yearning
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