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Dictionary definition for: Wistful

1. (s) full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"

2. (s) showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

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