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Wistful Moderate

Wistful has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

showing pensive sadness

"the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

2

Full of longing or yearning.

See Also
mono no aware sad wistfully pensive wistfulness yearning unwistful sehnsucht
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
awful woful urnful earful endful woeful cupful hueful dueful manful jugful aimful wilful aidful useful canful binful busful armful owlful
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