Wistful

What do we mean by wistful?

Full of melancholy longing or wishful yearning. adjective

Expressing sadness or yearning. adjective

Silent; hushed; standing in mute attention.

Full of thoughts; contemplative; musing; pensive.

Wishful; longing.

Longing; wishful; desirous. adjective

Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative. adjective

Full of yearning or longing adjective

Sad and thoughtful adjective

Showing pensive sadness adjective

Full of longing or yearning.

Sad and thoughtful.

Words that are spelled similarly to wistful:
wistful, wishful, fistful, listful, witful, mistful.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word wistful:
yearning, nostalgic, melancholy, melancholic, longing, lyricism, nostalgia, calumet, sadness, soulful, vista, haunting, ballad, melody, regret, mood, costello, duet, touching, tone, sad, farewell, wagon, tune, abbott, lyrics, arrangements, chorus, fantastic, romantic, widow, reflection, reviewer, verses, accompanying, theme, vocal, pop, gap, piano, moments, stakes, poem, romance, rolling, tale, emotional, delivery, instrumental, feeling, sounds, praised, voice, song, sweet, critic, happy, dream, tribute, review, eyes, love, songs, bit, kentucky, sound, beauty, look, beautiful, feel, track, poetry, debuted, changing, billboard, gone, sense, sun, solo, soul, noted, guitar, someone, girl.

Words that rhyme with wistful:
fistful.

Adjectives that are often used to describe wistful:
little, frequent, keen.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective wistful:
look, eyes, smile, expression, face, glance, eye, longing, gaze, note, tone, glances, sadness, sigh, regret, hope, tenderness, yearning, voice, desire, looks, melancholy, quality, beauty, air, charm, nostalgia, appeal, mood, faces, memories, dream, admiration, thoughts, envy, dreams, memory, child, eagerness, light, pathos, song, thought, feeling, melody, wonder, thinking, sort, figure, music, girl, curiosity, affection, love, longings, anxiety, hopes, heart, comment, resignation, mouth, sound, earnestness, boy, pride, smiles, stars, moment, sweetness, pleasure, sympathy, vision, remembrance, remark, creature, sentiment, recollection, cry, soul, songs, silence, countenance, tones, sighs, tears, wish, surprise, yearnings.

Consonant match to wistful:
wasteful, westphal, westfall, waste fill, westfahl.

Words that sound like wistful:
wistful, westphal, wasteful, westfall, wistfully, witful, listful, mistful, westall, hasteful, lustful, restful, zestful, wastefully, chestful, wastel, pestful, westville, tasteful, fistful, westfield, west hall, whistle, wishful, whittle, wiffle, wissel, jestful, wista, wisl, pistol, useful, boastful, pistil, pistel, tristful, mistel, feastful, listel, mistal, ghastful, mistell, wessel, wesel, wiswell, westphalen, hostile, hateful, hostel, hostil, hatful, houseful, waffle, watchful, woeful, wattle, trustful, willful, vestal, windfall, waffel, widdle, wiesel, wilful, wastrel, weisel, lustfully, restfully, westing, whitfield, wassel, widl, zestfully, wittol, pestel, wasl, wintle, whiston, without fail, woful, wintel, wood file, wafl, westerville, westerfeld, wet fish, deceitful, masterful, distal, fitful, lightful, headful, distel, mightful, misdeal, fistfuls, choiceful, hastile, liestal, fistel.