Synonyms:
pensive, wistful
Meaning: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
Usage examples
She wore an air of wistful questioning
'Don't be long,' replied Zizi, and she watched him go with wistful eyes.
I ought to be happy--oughtn't I, sweet one?" said Marguerite, with a wistful little sigh.
I patted him saying that is a good place for Pont, and I can see that wistful gaze the dog gave me, now.
When she opened the door her eyes greeted him with a certain wistful expression that he had never seen in them before.
When her big brown eyes, wistful and questioning as a fawn's, were reflected in it, there was no room for the sensitive little mouth.
He stood in the window, drumming against the raised sash, and feeling in every fibre the wistful tenderness with which she had spoken her cousin's name.
She had been elected to tell it, but before it was done all three had had a part in the telling, and all three were waiting with wistful eyes for her answer.
Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature which now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke.
Each year the struggle of obsolete methods of business and the intricacies of progress plowed the furrows a little deeper in the man's face, and when his eyes, that in youth had blazed with ambition, grew wistful and troubled, he dropped them that his wife might not see.