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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1240/
- Published: 2023-06-22T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-21T19:29:28.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

wistful (adjective):

1: full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy  
2: musingly sad : pensive

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wistful?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The etymology of wistful, while intriguing, is not entirely clear. It’s thought that the word is a combination of wistly, a now-obsolete word meaning “intently” and, perhaps, the similar-sounding wishful. Wistly, in turn, may have come from whistly, an old term meaning “silently” or “quietly.” What’s more certain is that our modern wistful is a great word to describe someone full of pensive yearning, or something inspiring such yearning.

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