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  1. wistful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. wistful: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. wistful: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. Wistful: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. wistful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. wistful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. wistful: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. wistful: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. wistful: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. wistful: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. wistful: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Wistful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. wistful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. wistful: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. Wistful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. wistful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. wistful: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  18. wistful: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  19. wistful: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  20. wistful: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  21. wistful: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Quick definitions (wistful)

adjective:  full of longing or unfulfilled desire ("Those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds")
adjective:  showing pensive sadness ("The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty")

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