nostalgic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos) Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos) New Latin nostalgiabor. English nostalgia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English nostalgic From nostalgia + -ic.
Meanings
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Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.
2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2:And here, as I write, the faint, scarcely perceptible, ghost-like suspicion of a scent—a mere nostalgic fancy, compound, generic, synthetic and all-embracing—an abstract olfactory symbol of the "Tout Paris" of fifty years ago, comes back to me out of the past; and fain would I inhale it in all its pristine fulness and vigour.
1891, George Du Maurier, Peter Ibbetson:And it was their voices which affected Gudrun almost to swooning. They aroused a strange, nostalgic ache of desire, something almost demoniacal, never to be fulfilled.
1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:Misery and a nameless nostalgic distress possessed him. He was twenty-three, and oh! so agonizingly conscious of the fact.
1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 1, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most nostalgic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more nostalgic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (25)
bg носталгичен (pertaining to nostalgia) · mk носталгичен (pertaining to nostalgia) · sv nostalgisk (pertaining to nostalgia) · tr nostaljik (pertaining to nostalgia) · pt nostálgico (pertaining to nostalgia) · pdt bangrich (pertaining to nostalgia) · fi nostalginen (pertaining to nostalgia) · he נוֹסְטַלְגִי (pertaining to nostalgia) · pl nostalgiczny (pertaining to nostalgia) · es nostálgico (pertaining to nostalgia) · yi נאָסטאַלגיש (pertaining to nostalgia) · ro nostalgic (pertaining to nostalgia) · da nostalgisk (pertaining to nostalgia) · el νοσταλγικός (pertaining to nostalgia) · cs nostalgický (pertaining to nostalgia) · fr nostalgique (pertaining to nostalgia) · ja 懐かしい (pertaining to nostalgia) · nb nostalgisk (pertaining to nostalgia) · it nostalgico (pertaining to nostalgia) · gl nostálxico (pertaining to nostalgia) · nn nostalgisk (pertaining to nostalgia) · de nostalgisch (pertaining to nostalgia) · ca nostàlgic (pertaining to nostalgia) · hu nosztalgikus (pertaining to nostalgia) · ru ностальги́ческий (pertaining to nostalgia)