Crossword clues for wistfulness
wistfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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Longing; wishful; desirous.
Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea.
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Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.
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.
Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being wistful.
WordNet
n. a sadly pensive longing
Usage examples of "wistfulness".
His eyes sparkled, and his smile took on a wistfulness as he gazed at her.
Once again she straggled to interpret the wistfulness coloring his voice.
There was about her a sad, gentle, Madonna-like wistfulness more poignant than sorrow.
He was smiling at her, but there was a puzzlement, almost a wistfulness, in his eyes similar to the way his wife had looked at her.
Hela, but something in her voice made Lissar look up at her again, and there was that expression, much like what she had seen in so many of the faces she had looked at since she came down from the mountains: something like awe, something like wistfulness, something like wariness.
He looked back at the action photos and Caralie thought she saw a wistfulness in his gaze.
Often the older Brannock watched the departure with something akin to wistfulness.
Maggie sighed deeply, clowning again, but this time there was pleasure rather than wistfulness running through her voice.
Indeed, Dewes would not have believed that Luffe could have spoken on any subject with so much wistfulness.
His demythologizing has a wistfulness about it that actually accentuates the tragedy of the tale.
Since then the physicists have gone further, but even in those days educated people used to hark back with a certain wistfulness to times when the universe was merely strange-not incomprehensible.
Since then the physicists have gone further, but even in those days educated people used to hark back with a certain wistfulness to times when the universe was merely strange—.
Since then the physicists have gone further, but even in those days educated people used to hark back with a certain wistfulness to times when the universe was merely strange&mdash.
The laughter in his eyes saddened briefly into wistfulness, then brusqueness as he held her away from him and said, "We'd better go now.