nostalgic
nostalgic adjective: of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
Adjective
nostalgic (comparative more nostalgic, superlative most nostalgic)
- Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
- And here, as I write, the faint, scarcely perceptible, ghost-like suspicion of a scent—a mere nostalgic fancy, compound, generic, synthetic and all-embracing—an abstract olfactory symbol of the "Tout Paris" of fifty years ago, comes back to me out of the past; and fain would I inhale it in all its...1891, George Du Maurier, Peter Ibbetson
- And it was their voices which affected Gudrun almost to swooning. They aroused a strange, nostalgic ache of desire, something almost demoniacal, never to be fulfilled.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC
Noun
nostalgic (plural nostalgics)
- A person who displays nostalgia for something.
- But of course every well-brought-up person to-day knows that the Victorians were sentimentalists, nostalgics, escapists, self-deceivers.1933 January, Gilbert Armitage, “Were these Victorians?”, in The Bookman, volume LXXXIII, number 496
- In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists.1957 August 19, Time, page 17
- Synonyms:
- nostalgist
nostalgic meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
nostalgic in Tamil
- ஏக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்தும் பழைய நினைவுகள்
nostalgic in Bengali
- গৃহকাতর, অতীতস্মৃতিবিধুর
nostalgic in Malayalam
- evocative, wistful, romantic
- ഗൃഹാതുര, ഗതകാലസുഖസ്മരണയുള്ള, നഷ്ടബോധമുള്ള, ഗൃഹാതുരത്വമുള്ള, ഗൃഹാതുരത്വമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, എപ്പോഴും വീടെന്ന ചിന്തയുള്ള
nostalgic in Kannada
- ಮನೆಗೀಳಿನ, ಗೃಹವಿರಹದ, ಹಂಬಲದ ಹಳೆಯ ನೆನಪಿನ, ಭಾವುಕನಾದ, ಉತ್ಕಂಠತೆಯ
Examples of nostalgic in a sentence
- Misery and a nameless nostalgic distress possessed him.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 1, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
- An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2:
Synonyms of nostalgic
Forms of nostalgic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more nostalgic |
| superlative | most nostalgic |
| Noun | |
| plural | nostalgics |
Origin of nostalgic
From nostalgia + -ic.
Words formed from nostalgic
Words that rhyme with nostalgic
Questions about nostalgic
- What does nostalgic mean?
- Nostalgic means of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
- What is nostalgic in Tamil?
- Nostalgic in Tamil is ஏக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்தும் பழைய நினைவுகள். See Nostalgic meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use nostalgic in a sentence?
- Misery and a nameless nostalgic distress possessed him.
- What part of speech is nostalgic?
- Nostalgic can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near nostalgic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nostalgic (page history and authors); nostalgic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nostalgic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nostalgic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nostalgic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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