Wistful Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Wistful

Reminiscent of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

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Feeling or showing a yearning

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Ranked near the beginning of an ascending series or scale:

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The definition of melancholy is someone or something that is sad or gloomy.

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Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.

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Like something in a dream; not sharply defined; misty, vague, etc.

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Aspiring, or seeking advancement.

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Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.

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Allowing no hope; causing despair

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The definition of plaintive is something that is sad, mournful or expresses sorrow.

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Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.

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Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

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Sad and dispirited.

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The definition of depressed is someone in a sad or unhappy state, or something that has been pushed down.

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half-expectant

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Desolate is defined as someone or something which is unhappy or bleak.

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Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

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Depressed; dejected

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(Of a person) Feeling despondent.

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Cloudy or overcast:

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Pertaining to dysphoria, or of being in a state of dysphoria

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(Idiomatic) Sad, melancholy.

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Of or relating to melancholia.

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Meditative; thoughtful

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Filled with or deeply affected by woe.

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Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.

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Sorrowful; gloomy.

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Antonyms for Wistful

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.

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The definition of joyous is feelings of great happiness or delight.

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Characterized by good health and high spirits; full of life; uninhibited

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Characterized by a lack of care; not caring.

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