thinking sadly about something that you would like to have, especially something in the past that you can no longer have a wistful smile
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NAmE//ˈwɪstfəli//
adverb She sighed wistfully. “If only I had known you then,” he said wistfully. noun [uncountable]See wistful in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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