nostalgic
See also: nostàlgic
English
Etymology
From nostalgia + -ic.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ældʒɪk
Adjective
nostalgic (comparative more nostalgic, superlative most nostalgic)
- Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
- 1891, George Du Maurier, Peter Ibbetson:
- 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.
- 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 2883166:
- 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.
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 1, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
- Misery and a nameless nostalgic distress possessed him. He was twenty-three, and oh! so agonizingly conscious of the fact.
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Derived terms
- nostalgically
- unnostalgic
Translations
pertaining to nostalgia
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Noun
nostalgic (plural nostalgics)
- A person who displays nostalgia for something.
- Synonym: nostalgist
- 1933 January, Gilbert Armitage, “Were these Victorians?”, in The Bookman, volume LXXXIII, number 496:
- But of course every well-brought-up person to-day knows that the Victorians were sentimentalists, nostalgics, escapists, self-deceivers.
- 1957 August 19, Time, page 17:
- In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists.
- 2009 February 28, Steven Morris, “Brought to books: bibliophiles and traders enjoy giveaway bonanza”, in The Guardian:
- FA Cup Centenary 1872-1972. One for the football nostalgics.
Translations
person who displays nostalgia
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Anagrams
- gnostical
Romanian
Etymology
From French nostalgique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nosˈtal.d͡ʒik/
Adjective
nostalgic m or n (feminine singular nostalgică, masculine plural nostalgici, feminine and neuter plural nostalgice)
- nostalgic
Declension
Declension of nostalgic
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | nostalgic | nostalgică | nostalgici | nostalgice | ||
definite | nostalgicul | nostalgica | nostalgicii | nostalgicele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | nostalgic | nostalgice | nostalgici | nostalgice | ||
definite | nostalgicului | nostalgicei | nostalgicilor | nostalgicelor |
Related terms
- nostalgie