Qualities

Synonyms for wistful

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

showing pensive sadness

The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

pensive

Same sentence, swapped: The sensitive and pensive response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for wistful as it is used in the sentence above.

remorseful
regretful
shameful

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luridadjectiveshockingglaringly vivid and graphicHigh Camp lustrousadjectivebrightmade smooth and bright by or as if by rubbingHigh Camp malformedadjectivedistortedso badly formed or out of shape as to be uglyHigh Camp miserlyadjectivemeancharacterized by or indicative of lack of generosityHigh Camp punishingadjectivehardcharacterized by effort to the point of exhaustionTreeline purposenoundeterminationthe quality of being determined to do or achieve somethingTreelineHas a reason line questionnoundoubtuncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of somethingFoothillsHas a reason line verbiagenounwordingthe manner in which something is expressed in wordsHigh CampHas a reason line

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