Another word for wistful
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Adjective
In low spirits
- Not happy or joyful; sad or sorrowful:
- Not satisfied; displeased or discontented:
- Not attended by or bringing good fortune; unlucky:
- Sorrowful; gloomy.
- Lacking energy or enthusiasm; listless.
- Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
- Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
- Deplorable or inadequate; sorry:
- Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
- Pensive reflection or contemplation.
- Black bile.
- Affected with or subject to melancholy.
- Of or relating to melancholia.
- Having little relative height; not high or tall:
- Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces:
- Near to the ground or the horizon:
- Melancholy; depressed; sad.
- Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
- Showing or filled with gloom:
- Causing or producing gloom; depressing:
- pertaining to dysphoria, or of being in a state of dysphoria
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish:
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt:
- Low in spirit; depressed.
- Directed downward:
- Low in spirits; depressed.
- From a higher to a lower place or position:
- Toward, to, or on the ground, floor, or bottom:
- Downstairs:
- Affected or marked by low spirits; dejected.
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
- Barren; lifeless:
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.
- Low in spirits; dejected.
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Sunk below the surrounding region:
- Being in low spirits; depressed.
- The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
- A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
- Bluing.
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Another word for wistful
Modifier
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- Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy.
- Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.
- Having no hope; despairing:
- Characterized by despair:
- Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible:
- Having or expressing a wish or longing.
- Engaged in deep and serious thought.
- Showing or expressing deep, often melancholy thought:
- A persistent, often melancholy desire; a longing:
- A strong persistent yearning or desire, especially one that cannot be fulfilled.
- Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
- Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
- Deplorable or inadequate; sorry:
- Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
- Pensive reflection or contemplation.
- Black bile.
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