Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to, characteristic of, or affected with nostalgia; homesick.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
- adj. Reminiscent of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
- n. A person who displays nostalgia for something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons
Etymologies
- From nostalgia + -ic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is value for the construction time, role-playing fun and a certain nostalgic value that sets it apart from most other toys.”
“The kind of "sanity" for which Stewart claims to be nostalgic is a thing of the past.”
“Lost in nostalgic souvenirs I ambled past les belles, snapping a few more photos along the way.”
“Quiet, episodic, and verging on nostalgic is how I explain Jim the Boy by Tony Earley.”
“T.M. Spooner's novel, Notes from Exile, is a lakeside story, and because it is, I feel a certain nostalgic empathy for the book.”
“Much of the setting and subtext of the Potter books reflects a certain nostalgic Englishness (even though, at a guess, Hogwarts is perhaps somewhere in Scotland ... or perhaps in the Pennines; Scotland seems likelier though), and far from the Pagan madness fundamentalists try to make the credulous believe is the central point of these books.”
“The borders and names have changed since it was made, but maps, like pictures and journals, have a built-in nostalgic quality that can never render them completely obsolete.”
Excerpt: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
“I figure any directory that doesn't have a valid entry for myself is not going to be that reliable, and while they have a certain nostalgic value, I don't need 'em any longer.”
“Review: Well told story, but it's a little too steeped in nostalgic reminiscing - obviously done for dramatic impact.”
“Hell, even rock stars and rappers rant about “old school” in nostalgic terms.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nostalgic’.
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pretty
pretty words.
nymph, silhouette, cosmic, pixie, illumination, serendipity, starlight, wanderlust, moon, Lyra, lullaby, effervescent and 26 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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old faves
ones I already liked
vacuole, organelle, debauchle, voluptuous, spry, cattywampus, obscure, occlude, occult, celtic, voracious, ardently and 133 more...
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monica's list
just words i think are pretty.
luminous, iridescent, crestfallen, wanderlust, autumn, autumnal, spark, candescence, exaltations, merry, empathy, tainted and 96 more...
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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barfi
turpentine, cognate, connotation, denotation, bias, unflinching, emptive, mob, amnesty, modestly, spear, incline and 150 more...
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Kratoz's Words
incendiary, gambit, vigilante, amorphous, idiosyncratic, denizen, tautology, spurious, indulgent, quintessential, mediocre, ostentatious and 98 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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