as in wistful
showing or evoking a longing for an often idealized past
Her grandfather was nostalgic about the 'good old days'. a nostalgic film about the 1960s
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Recent Examples of nostalgic
Their shimmering harmonies are tightly woven purity, giving the song’s nostalgic message ample space to take center stage.
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 12 May 2025
In that sense, the central relationship suits the show’s nostalgic mood, which is self-aware but not annoyingly so.
—Judy Berman, Time, 12 May 2025
Strong often played the Fox News host during her time on the show, and bringing her back felt nostalgic.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
This nostalgic feature film is set in 1996 and focuses on a small town teenage girl named Denise, whose father mysteriously vanished one night years ago while investigating a flying saucer sighting in the nearby forested hills.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 9 May 2025
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 12 May 2025
In that sense, the central relationship suits the show’s nostalgic mood, which is self-aware but not annoyingly so.
—Judy Berman, Time, 12 May 2025
Strong often played the Fox News host during her time on the show, and bringing her back felt nostalgic.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
This nostalgic feature film is set in 1996 and focuses on a small town teenage girl named Denise, whose father mysteriously vanished one night years ago while investigating a flying saucer sighting in the nearby forested hills.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nostalgic
wistful
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In an age shadowed by the climate crisis, fraying social bonds and political rupture, what’s needed isn’t a neoclassical revival or a wistful retreat to the Lyceum.—
January LaVoy Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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But the Administration’s clip stripped the words of their wistful energy and doubleness of meaning and prefigured its intent to impose a single, cruel interpretation on a human being.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Nostalgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nostalgic. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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