wistful

adjectiveB1

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more wistful
Superlative
most wistful
  1. 1.

    Full of longing or yearning.

    His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days.

    Đồng nghĩa: desirous, yearnful

  2. 2.

    Sad and thoughtful.

    Đồng nghĩa: despondent, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

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Đồng nghĩa

desirousyearnfuldespondentunhappyatrabiliaryatrabiliousblithelessdispiritedbluebummed outchapfallencheerlesschopfallencrestfallencut updampdejecteddepresseddisgruntleddisconsolate

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Nguồn gốc từ

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, which could not occur in Modern English, particularly not with wishful continuing in use. However, the sense of “longing” appears to be influenced by wishful, making wistful an ambiguous poetic word.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, dictionary, wiktionary · cập nhật 16/8/2026

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