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Definition: Nostalgic |
NostalgicAdjective1. Unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Nostalgic \Nos*tal"gic\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression nostalgique.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: NostalgicSynonym: homesick (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nostalgic |
| English words defined with "nostalgic": John Greenleaf Whittier ♦ Moore ♦ nostalgically ♦ sentiment ♦ Thomas Moore ♦ Whittier, with nostalgia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nostalgic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (nostalgic, nostalgically, wistful). |
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Screenplays | Kinda makes you nostalgic for the homicidal creatures, doesn't it? (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman) We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for? (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman) | |
Lyrics | For his nostalgic tale (What A Fool Believes; performing artist: Doobie Brothers) | |
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| "Nostalgic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nostalgic" is used about 276 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 276 | 17,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nostalgic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nostalgjik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لهف للوطن, حنين إلي الوطن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | носталгичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 乡愁. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nostalgický (homesick, reminiscent), tesklivý (sad, wistful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | depression foraarsaget af hjemve (nostalgic depression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غریب (Curious, Eccentric, Extravagant, Immigrant, Lonely, Romantic, Singular, Stranger, Uncanny, Unco, Unheard, Unmoral, Unusual, Weird, Whimsical, Wonder), دلتنگ (Homesick, Lone, Sad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nostalgique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nostalgisch (nostalgically, reminiscent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νοσταλγόσ (homesick), νοσταλγικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מת'ע'ע (sick), וסטל'י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vágyódó (desirous, longing), hazavágyó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rindu (hanker, homesick, longing), kangen (long for, longing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nostalgico (homesick, melancholy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ノスタルジック . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 향수주의자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | foddeeagh (homesick, longing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostalgicnay saudade (longing, missing, nostalgia, yearning, yen). (various references) nostalgic (nostalgically, wistful). (various references) ностальгический. (various references) nostalgičan. (various references) nostálgico (homesick). (various references) hemsjuk (homesick). (various references) ซึ่งคิ"ถึงบ้าน (homesick). (various references) nostaljik, yurt özlemi ile ilgili, geçmişe özlem belirten. (various references) тужити за батьківщиною. (various references) nhớ quê hương luyến tiếc quá kh, nhớ nh (homesick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "nostalgic": nostalgically, nostalgics. (additional references) | |
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"Nostalgic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nastalgic, nogstalgic, nolstalgic, nosalgic, nostaglic, nostalga, nostalgists, nostalic, nostalogic, nostolgic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nostalgic" (pronounced nôsta"ljik) |
| 3 | -j i k | allergic, analogic, biologic, demagogic, geologic, gynecologic, illogic, lethargic, logic, magic, neurologic, nonstrategic, paraplegic, pelagic, quadriplegic, strategic, technologic, tragic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: agnostic, antilogs, castling, catlings, coasting, coatings, locating, solacing, solating. | |
-2 letters: actings, actions, agonist, alnicos, antilog, atonics, casting, cations, catling, catlins, citolas, closing, coaling, coating, costing, galiots, gitanos, gnostic, lacings, lasting, latigos, latinos, oilcans, otalgic, salting, scaling, slating, staling, stoical, talcing, talions, tiglons, tincals. | |
-3 letters: acting, actins, action, agonic, algins, aligns, alnico, aloins, antics. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: nostalgics, osculating. | |
+2 letters: dislocating, glaciations, glauconites, logistician, mislocating, oscillating, outclassing. | |
+3 letters: coagulations, colligations, congelations, contagiously, diagnostical, inosculating, logisticians, oceanologist. | |
+4 letters: agonistically, campanologist, cartilaginous, conglobations, conglutinates, conjugalities, consolidating, constellating, deglaciations, flowchartings, galactosamine, gastronomical, gesticulation, glycosylating, glycosylation, laughingstock, misallocating, miscataloging, nostalgically, oceanologists, regionalistic, suffocatingly, translocating, uglifications, volcanologist, vulcanologist. | |
+5 letters: anglicizations, anticoagulants, antiphlogistic, campanologists, conflagrations, congenialities, diagnostically, dogmaticalness, estrogenically, fictionalising, galactosamines, gallicizations, geopoliticians, gesticulations, glorifications, glycosylations, jingoistically, lactoglobulins, laryngectomies, laughingstocks, lignifications, peptidoglycans, postganglionic, volcanologists, vulcanologists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 73 74 61 6C 67 69 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- ... - .- .-.. --. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101100 01100111 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o s t a l g i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0073 0074 0061 006C 0067 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488185866778737569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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