wistful

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Full of longing or yearning.
    — His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days.
  2. Sad and thoughtful.

词形变化

more wistful comparative most wistful superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
wistfully wistfulness

词源

Presumably from *whistful, from whist (“silent”) + -ful, based on older wistly. It is implausible that it derives from wishful, the required sound change being wishful → *wisful → wistful, which could not occur in Modern English, particularly not with wishful continuing in use. However, the sense of “longing” appears to be influenced by wishful, making wistful an ambiguous poetic word.
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