Adjacent Words

nostalgic definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons

Merriam Webster's

adjective or noun see nostalgia

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nostalgic Nos*tal"gic, a. [Cf. F. nostalgique.] Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Nostalgic things cause you to think affectionately about the past. Although we still depict nostalgic snow scenes on Christmas cards, winters are now very much warmer... Somehow the place even smelt wonderfully nostalgic. ADJ 2. If you feel nostalgic, you think affectionately about experiences you had in the past. Many people were nostalgic for the good old days... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ for/about n • nostalgically People look back nostalgically on the war period, simply because everyone pulled together. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

Moby Thesaurus

bathetic, beery, cloying, gooey, gushing, hankering, homesick, honing, languishing, longing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pining, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, soft, sticky, tear-jerking, teary, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning