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wistfully English

Meaning wistfully meaning

What does wistfully mean?

— adverb in a wistful manner his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wistfully?

yearningly woefully with a sad look with a melancholy wistful pensively mournfully melancholically dreamily