Usually means: Longing for something lost, unattainable.
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  1. wistful: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wistful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wistful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wistful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wistful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wistful, wistful: Wordnik
  7. wistful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wistful: Wiktionary
  9. wistful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wistful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wistful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wistful: Dictionary.com
  13. wistful: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wistful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wistful (horse): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wistful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wistful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wistful: Rhymezone
  19. Wistful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wistful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wistful: Free Dictionary
  22. wistful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wistful: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. wistful: Legal dictionary

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adjective:  Full of longing or yearning.
adjective:  Sad and thoughtful.

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