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wist·ful

l) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

Full of wishful yearning.
Pensively sad; melancholy.

ETYMOLOGY:
From obsolete wistly, intently

OTHER FORMS:
wistful·ly (Adverb), wistful·ness (Noun)

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