nostalgicadjective
uk/nɒsˈtæl.dʒɪk/us/nɑːˈstæl.dʒɪk/C2 feeling happy and also slightly sad when you think about things that happened in the past:
Talking about our old family holidays has made me feel all nostalgic.
We'll take a nostalgic look at the musical hits of the 60s.
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Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- incandescent
- jolly
- jubilant
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
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Memory and memories
nostalgically
adverb uk/nɒsˈtæl.dʒɪ.kəl.i/us/nɑːˈstæl.dʒɪ.kəl.i/
to look back/talk/think nostalgically