wistfully
/wˈɪstfəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more wistfully (comparative)
most wistfully (superlative)