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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nostalgic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
look
▪ All in all, a nostalgic look back at London Airport at a time when airliners had their own individual characters.
▪ Players want longer shorts for practical reasons as much as anything and the nostalgic look is simply another trend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Radio Hour" is a nostalgic look at radio programs of the 1940s.
▪ Many of these old newsreels will make people feel nostalgic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His 50-year-old lived-in face smiled not out of embarrassment, rather out of nostalgic reflection.
▪ It may be that few people who were there have devoted much time to nostalgic reminiscence.
▪ She even peddles her line of nostalgic shirts on line.
▪ Such a restriction on land coming on to the market is irrelevant, but nostalgic.
▪ The gold-winning Country Living entry celebrated her work with a nostalgic cottage-garden full of lupins, irises and climbing roses.
▪ The recollection of the summer evening sunlight coming through the large window behind the preacher's head evokes many nostalgic memories.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nostalgic

Nostalgic \Nos*tal"gic\, a. [Cf. F. nostalgique.] Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nostalgic

1806, from nostalgia + -ic. Related: Nostalgically.

Wiktionary
nostalgic

a. 1 Of, having, or relating to nostalgia. 2 Reminiscent of the speaker's childhood or younger years. n. A person who displays nostalgia for something.

WordNet
nostalgic

adj. unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons [syn: homesick]

Wikipedia
Nostalgic (song)

"Nostalgic" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson from her seventh studio album, Piece by Piece (2015). Produced by former DC Talk member Jason Halbert, the song was written by artists who also have been members of various rock bands: Semi Precious Weapons lead singer Justin Tranter, former Cobra Starship lead guitarist Ryland Blackinton, Young Love lead singer Dan Keyes, and Oliver duo member Vaughn Oliver. An synth electro rock song, it sings of remembering nostalgia of a failed relationship, which was mainly based on Tranter's and Keyes's real life experiences. The record mainly features synthesizer sounds that were prominently popular during the 1980s as well as string arrangements by Joseph Trapanese and guitars by Tim Pierce. Upon the release of Piece by Piece, "Nostalgic" has received a very positive response from music critics, who lauded the track as one of the album's highlights and complimented the 1980s nostalgia evoked from the song.

Usage examples of "nostalgic".

I had the curious thought that these men were nostalgic for black-and-white, their longings dominated by achromatic values, personal extremes of postwar urban gray.

Being a cynic, I did not believe our sentimental hero was nostalgic for his Baetican bride of barely a few months, Claudia Rufma.

Viviana, chewing dulse, passed the time voicing nostalgic reflections about dinners at Court.

Moreover, Kundera ends his novel with a final nostalgic memory of the blue point which is Agnes and, in so doing, his entire novelistic score in seven movements.

She had left Brisalli to begin her apprenticeship with Sartol two winters ago and, since then, had not once felt nostalgic for her home.

The morning sunshine dazzled Planch, and the air was tinted pink, giving everything a warm, nostalgic glow.

It would be impossibly Christmassy and nostalgic were it not for the occasional glimpse of a Nazi uniform, leaving a jackbooted trail in the fresh snow.

Dietz said he kept them to use as nostalgic mementos and masturbatory material.

The engineer Vauban dammed the river here and sent it different ways, to make a moat around the fortified town: downstream of his beautiful bridge is a weir and a millstream and backwaters, and crooked streets through the seventeenth-century huddle, and the city fathers are busy restoring a nostalgic atmosphere with cobblestones and antique gas lamps, and rather pathetic corners of greenery.

I used to think that the call of the whippoorwill was a sweetly nostalgic sound, but never again.

This is not one of those embalmed adorations of nostalgic sentimentality.

The mall had a mainly nostalgic appeal, and in any case, it was like background music: she could absorb it without really noticing it.

The new four-frame comics, however, were overwhelmingly conservative and nostalgic in spirit, nothing more than old-fashioned depictions of practical jokes and bumblings.

The nostalgic wail of a tango sounded disembodiedly on the night air, without seeming to have any source, and you could tell that those upright under the pavilion roof in a small compact cluster were dancing, and not just standing there between the tables, only because each two were turned to face one another.

Craig thought, and had a sudden nostalgic twinge as he remembered that rutted, tortuous track through the bad lands below the Chobe river, that wide green tributary of the great Zambezi.