wistfully

wist·ful

W0189600 (wĭst′fəl)adj.1. Full of melancholy longing or wishful yearning: "She seemed wistful for the old days when I'd hung around her all the time" (David Huddle).2. Expressing sadness or yearning: "She saw the wisftul eyes grow yet more wistful, the lips curve to a pleading smile" (Dorothy Parker).

[Alteration (influenced by wishful) of obsolete wistly, intently, perhaps from variant of whistly, whishtly, silently, from whist, silent, from whist, hush! (interjection calling for silence), from Middle English, of imitative origin.]

wist′ful·ly adv.wist′ful·ness n.

Thesaurus

Adv.

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

Translations

愁闷地

wistful

(ˈwistful) adjective thoughtful and rather sad, (as if) longing for something with little hope. The dog looked into the butcher's window with a wistful expression on his face.愁闷的ˈwistfully adverb愁闷地ˈwistfulness noun愁闷