Adjective: nostalgic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more nostalgic |
| Superlative | most nostalgic |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like nostalgic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos)
3. Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos)
4. New Latin nostalgiabor.
5. English nostalgia
6. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
7. Proto-Italic *-ikos
8. Latin -icuslbor.
9. Old French -iquebor.
10. Middle English -ik
11. English -ic
12. English nostalgic
13. From nostalgia + -ic.
Verbs referencing "nostalgic"
Finnish Adjectives
nostalginen.