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wistful
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expressing longing or yearning tinged with sadness or melancholy, often for something unattainable or lost
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
qualitative
Superlative
most wistful
Comparative
more wistful
gradable
Examples
Walking past the park where they used to play as children, he felt a wistful pang of nostalgia for simpler times.
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