Synonyms of wistful

wistful

adjective

as in nostalgic

showing or evoking a sad longing for an often idealized past

She felt wistful looking through her college yearbook, remembering old friends she had not seen in decades.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nostalgic
• dreamy
• sloppy
• moony
• sentimental
• misty-eyed
• wet
• moonstruck
• melodramatic
• sticky
• starry-eyed
• maudlin
• mawkish
• soapy
• schmaltzy
• sappy
• saccharine
• cloying
• drippy
• sudsy
• soppy
• gooey
• sugary
• corny
• mushy
• soap-operatic
• cutesy
• spoony
• sugarcoated
• fruity
• slushy
• twee
• lovey-dovey
• spooney
• soupy
• chocolate-box
• novelettish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cynical
• hardheaded
• unsentimental
• antisentimental
• hard-edged
• hard-boiled

• cynical
• hardheaded
• unsentimental
• antisentimental
• hard-edged
• hard-boiled