Crossword-Solution: WISTFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wistful | a. | Longing; wishful; desirous. |
| Wistful | a. | Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “WISTFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sadly longing | 1 answer |
| Showing regretful longing | 1 answer |
| Sadly pensive | 1 answer |
| Regretfully longing | 1 answer |
| Pensively sad | 1 answer |
| Inclined to pine | 1 answer |
| Hung up on what could have been | 1 answer |
| Filled with longing. | 1 answer |
| Full of yearning | 2 answers |
| Wishing ___ | 9 answers |
| A SADLY PENSIVE LONGING | 11 answers |
| wishful | 11 answers |
| Nostalgic | 14 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| melancholic | 53 answers |
| pensive | 54 answers |
| Longing | 67 answers |
| Yearning | 75 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with WISTFUL (5)
Marguerite, rigid as a statue, followed with hard, set eyes the upright figure, as it disappeared through the doorway—but as little Suzanne, humble and obedient, was about to follow her mother, the hard, set expression suddenly vanished, and a wistful, almost pathetic and childlike look stole into Lady Blakeney’s eyes.
But now it was different: after patting him a little I went to the library—he remained behind; when I went upstairs he did not follow me, save with his wistful eyes.
Let us see the keeper’s bounty, therefore, without delay.” The hermit cast a wistful look upon the knight, in which there was a sort of comic expression of hesitation, as if uncertain how far he should act prudently in trusting his guest.
Sapt raised his weapon after him, and there was such an expression of wistful regret on his face that I had much ado not to burst out laughing.
She sat musing on the strange freak which had prompted her father to bury them in this savage corner of the globe; and as she pondered there came a wistful expression to her eyes, and an unwonted sadness drooped the corners of her mouth.
Quotes with WISTFUL (3)
Look there.” Regina pointed toward the northern sky. “Polaris.” Viktor looked up. “The constant north star, one of man’s most dependable guides.”“Polaris will be waiting for us there when we are old and have experienced a lifetime of joys and regrets,” Regina said, a wistful note in her voice. “That fact makes me feel like one of God’s most insignificant creatures.
Almondine To her, the scent and the memory of him were one. Where it lay strongest, the distant past came to her as if that morning: Taking a dead sparrow from her jaws, before she knew to hide such things. Guiding her to the floor, bending her knee until the arthritis made it stick, his palm hotsided on her ribs to measure her breaths and know where the pain began. And to comfort her. That had been the week before he went away. He was gone, she knew this, but something of hi…
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned …
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Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1965–2019).