Wistful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WISTFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• yearning
• having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing
• sadly longing
• Longing; wishful; desirous.
• Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.
• showing pensive sadness

Words related to WISTFUL

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How to use WISTFUL in a sentence

• There he stood in the shadow of a spruce and looked out upon life as he had once lived it, trembling, wistful and yet hesitating in that final moment.
• Low and very low she called to Olaf, and the dim, wistful eyes of Rudolph Musgrave lifted, and gazed full upon her standing there, and were no longer wistful.
• Lady Mary stood by her patiently, with more and more of that wistful desire to be recognized.
• Kalitan remained with him, although his eyes looked wistful, for he had heard the chief talk about bear tracks having been seen the day before.
• Her expression was like that of a wistful little child.
• She sat there, hands loosely clasped in her lap, looking at Katie with great solemn eyes, tired wistful mouth.
• The day had weighed upon him too, for he seemed a wistful little boy just then.
• His eyes found it and dwelt upon it with a wistful wonder.
• Her voice was strangely wistful during this confession.
• This State, lying equally convenient to both Austria and Bavaria, by both of these kingdoms had for many years been regarded with a wistful eye.
• The girl was smiling a wistful, far-away smile that was very touching.
• Sometimes he did not look at her, and again he met her wistful gaze and spoke without a smile.
• If the Lord did it all why should he give his string of fish to an old soldier! The grey eyes looked into his with wistful tenderness.
• Her eyes lost their yearning look and her lips their wistful curves.
• A sort of wistful, contented expression came into them when he sat down beside her.
• In his hazel eyes was the wistful look that crept there sometimes when he watched the domestic happiness of those about him.
• Thus the heart of Naisi went to Deirdre, as hers had gone to him, so that all things were changed for them, growing radiant with tremulous hope and wistful with longing.
• Yet even as she laughed, her face suddenly clouded over, a strange, wistful look came into her eyes, and her laughter was lost in a quick, short sigh.
• There was no wistful appeal in his eye, as of a man who hopes for the best and fears the worst.
• As for him, in her wistful and gracious charm, she had never seemed to him more lovely.
• His glance, though furtive, had the appealing quality which rendered him sometimes so exquisitely wistful to her.
• It is a style singularly sensitive, a little vibrant perhaps sometimes, and so tense as to become attenuated, but of a most rare and wistful beauty.
• She was looking as intent and wistful as if she might have been thirty years old instead of nine or ten, when Juanita came to her side with the tea she had been making.
• I put aside from my heart, once and for all, the old wistful instinct which ties the living to the dead.
• He looked more wistful than ever, and twisted the handle nervously between his fingers.
• His was slightly wistful in its search for something he did not yet know.
• I took a wistful pleasure in giving the naked ones two good strokes each.
• But all the time she questioned him deeper with eyes large, wistful, eager.

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