Word.ws English Dictionary

whistful

whistful is the alternative form of wistful.

Meaning of wistful

Adjective

wistful (comparative more wistful, superlative most wistful)

  1. Full of longing or yearning.
    • His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days.
    Synonyms:
    desirous, yearnful
  2. Sad and thoughtful.

Forms of whistful

comparativemore whistful
superlativemost whistful

Origin of whistful

From whist + -ful.

Questions about whistful

What is whistful the alternative form of?
Whistful is the alternative form of wistful.

Words near whistful in the dictionary

  1. whisted
  2. whister
  3. whisterpoop
  4. whisterpoops
  5. whisters
  6. whistful
  7. whisting
  8. whistlable
  9. whistle
  10. whistle and flute
  11. whistle blow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whistful (page history and authors); wistful (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “whistful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whistful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.