Language Enhancement Programme by Shruti

🌻 *DAILY DOSE OF VOCABULARY* 🌻


*’WISTFULLY’*

🖋️ *Part Of Speech*-Adverb

Wistful-Adjective

🖋️ *Pronunciation*
*wi* as in win

*st* as in first

*fully* as like fully

🖋️ *Meaning*
Thinking sadly about something you would like to have but cannot have.

*Note:*
Wistfully describes something that’s done with longing or regret. You might smile wistfully while sitting on a train that’s pulling away from the station, leaving your hometown behind.

If there’s a vague sense of yearning behind an action, you can say it’s done wistfully. People sigh wistfully, gaze wistfully, and wave goodbye wistfully — thinking about the past or what you are leaving behind with a little bit of sadness. In the 1600s, wistfully had a completely different meaning — from the now-obsolete word wist, or intent — done with close attention. It gained today’s meaning in the early 1700s.

🖋️ *Sentence* —
💐She gazed *wistfully* out the window, remembering her childhood home.

💐”I wish we could go back to that small town,” she said *wistfully*.

💐 As I think back of my childhood, I *wistfully* recall the fun summers on my grandfather’s farm.