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wistfully

/ˈwɪstfəɫi/ adv

In a wistful manner.

Word Origin Wistfully comes from wistful, which is from wistly (intently) + -ful, but ultimately from Old English witan 'to know.' The idea is that wistful originally meant 'with close attention, knowing,' then shifted to 'yearning, pensive.' The PIE root *weid- 'to see, know' also gives us wise, wit, and vision. So wistfully is looking with longing, as if trying to see something.

adv In a wistful manner.

She looked wistfully at the photograph of her childhood home.

(副词) 惆怅地；忧郁地

她惆怅地望着童年家园的照片。

(adverbio) con melancolía; con nostalgia; con añoranza; melancólicamente; nostálgicamente [Con melancolía; de manera nostálgica.]

Miró con nostalgia la fotografía de la casa de su infancia.

(adverbe) mélancoliquement; nostalgiquement; d'un air pensif; avec nostalgie [D'une manière empreinte de nostalgie douce et mélancolique, souvent tournée vers le passé.]

Elle regardait avec nostalgie la photo de sa maison d'enfance.

(Adverb) wehmütig; sehnsüchtig [Auf eine Weise, die von sehnsüchtiger oder wehmütiger Erinnerung an etwas Vergangenes oder Unerreichbares geprägt ist.]

Sie blickte **wistfully** auf das Foto ihres Elternhauses.

(副詞) 物思いに耽ける様子で、寂しそうに、懐かしそうに、未練がましそうに。

彼女は子供の頃の家が写った写真を見て、寂しそうに見つめた。

(advérbio) melancolicamente; com saudade; nostalgicamente; contemplativamente [De maneira saudosa ou contemplativa.]

Ela olhou com saudade para a fotografia da casa de sua infância.

Synonyms: longingly yearningly pensively thoughtfully melancholically sadly plaintively mournfully Antonyms: cheerfully happily joyfully contentedly
Word parts: wist + ful + ly

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