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| Main Entry: | wistful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | daydreaming, longing |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, desirous, disconsolate, dreaming, dreamy, forlorn, hopeless, meditative, melancholy, mournful, musing, nostalgic, pensive, plaintive, reflective, sad, thoughtful, wishful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | uncaring |
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| Main Entry: | homesick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nostalgic |
| Synonyms: | hankering, heartsick, lonely, missing, wistful, yearning, longing for home |
| Main Entry: | longing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | anxious, ardent, avid, craving, eager, hungry, languishing, ravenous, wishful, wistful, yearning, pining |
| Antonyms: | loathing, despising, hating |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, sad |
| Synonyms: | blue*, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down*, down in the mouth*, downbeat, downcast, downhearted, droopy, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavyhearted, joyless, lachrymose, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, miserable, moody, mournful, pensive, somber, sorrowful, sorry*, trite, unhappy, wet blanket*, wistful, woebegone, woeful, down and out, down in the dumps, dragged, in blue funk, mirthless, moony, saddened, saddening, torn up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nostalgic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | longingly remembering |
| Synonyms: | homesick, lonesome, longing, mushy*, regretful, sappy*, sentimental, sloppy, wistful, yearning, cornball, down memory lane, drippy, like yesterday, syrupy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meditative, solemn |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, abstracted, attentive, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, preoccupied, reflective, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn, cogitative, pondering, reflecting, ruminating, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, shallow |
| Main Entry: | plaintive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pathetic, woebegone |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, crabby*, cranky*, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grumpy*, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts*, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, wistful, woeful, beefing, bellyaching, grousing, saddening, wailing |
| Notes: | a plaintiff is the party who brings an action in a court of law, while plaintive means expressive of sorrow or melancholy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensual, desirous |
| Synonyms: | amorous, ardent, concupiscent, desirous, erotic, heavy*, hot*, lascivious, libidinous, loving, lustful, prurient, romantic, sexy, steamy, stimulated, sultry, wanton, wistful, aroused, turned-on |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, frigid, indifferent, uncaring, unpassionate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | bitter, blue*, cheerless, dejected, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, out of sorts*, pensive, pessimistic, somber, sorrowful, sorry, troubled, weeping, wistful, woebegone, bereaved, down in dumps, down in mouth, grieved, hurting, in doldrums, in grief, in the dumps, sick at heart |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | touching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting, moving emotionally |
| Synonyms: | compassionate, heartbreaking, impressive, melting, mind-blowing*, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, poignant, responsive, sad, stirring, stunning, sympathetic, tender, wistful, emotive, heart-rending, pitiable, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | unmoving, unaffecting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy*, calculating, cerebral, deep, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, meditative, melancholy, musing, pensive, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflective, retrospective, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful, cogitative, deliberative, lost in thought, museful, philosophic, pondering, reflecting, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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agog, all agog, ambitious, anadipsic, anxious, appetent, appetizable, appetizing, ardent, aspiring, at a loss for, athirst, avid, belly, bent upon, breathless, bulimic, burning, concubitant, covetous, craving, curious, desirable, desired, desiring, desirous, devoured by desire, drouthy, dry, dying for, eager, enviable, envious, esurient, exacting, exoptable, extortionate, fain, famished, fervent, gair, grasping, greedy, greedy as a hog, hungry, hungry as a churchmouse, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a hunter, impatient, in demand, inclined, ingordigious, insatiable, intent on, intent upon, keen, lickerish, mad after, meatwhole, open, orectic, overeager, parched with thirst, partial to, peckish, phagomanic, pinched with hunger, pleasing, quenchless, rabid, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, salacious, sarcophilous, sedulous, set on, set upon, sharp, sitient, sky, sordid, tantalizing, thirsty, tibialoconcupiscent, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslaked, vaulting, venerean, voracious, wishful, wistful, with an empty stomach, yiver
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| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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pungent, red, absorbing, acute, affected, affected with, anxiolytic, ardent, attempered, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, captious, cast, caustic, characterized, clairsentient, conscious, cordial, cutting, deep, deep, deep, disposed, eager, earnest, eaten up with, ecstatic, electric, emotional, emotive, enraptured, enthusiastic, essentic, esthetic, exsensed, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, flexanimous, formed, framed, glowing, gushing, having a bias, heart, hearty, home, imbued with, impassioned, impetuous, impressed with, impressive, in a quiver, inborn, inbred, incisive, inclined, indelible, ineffaceable, ingenuous, ingrained, inveterate, keen, keen as a razor, lively, molded, moved with, passionate, pathematic, pathoscopic, penetrated with, penetrating, perceptive, perfervid, pervading, piercing, piquant, poignant, profound, psychosensory, psychosexual, quick, rabid, racy, rapt, rapturous, raving, rectopathic, sensible, sensificatory, sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sensuous, sentient, sharp, sincere, smart, soul, strong, struck all of a heap, swelling, thin, touched with, trenchant, vivid, warm, warmhearted, wistful, with feeling, wrought up, zealous
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| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alembicated, catoptric, cogitabund, contemplative, deep, idiotropic, in the mind, introspective, lost in thought, meditative, museful, pensive, philosophastering, philosophical, platonic, reflective, refrangible, sedate, specular, speculative, studious, subvocal, thinking, thought of, thoughtful, under consideration, uppermost in the mind, wistful
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