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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-742/
- Published: 2022-02-09T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-13T18:07:10.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

The word for today is…

wistful (adjective):  
1 : full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy  
2 : musingly sad

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

Etymology : Are you yearning to know the history of wistful? If so, I can ease your melancholy a little by telling you that wistful comes from a combination of wishful and wistly, a now obsolete word meaning “intently.” I can’t say with certainty where wistly came from, but it may have sprung from whistly, an old term meaning “silently” or “quietly.” How did the supposed transition from a word meaning “quietly” to one meaning “intently” come about? That’s something to muse about, but the answer isn’t known.

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