Nostalgic

adj, noun

adj, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who displays nostalgia for something.

    "But of course every well-brought-up person to-day knows that the Victorians were sentimentalists, nostalgics, escapists, self-deceivers."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
batheticbeerycloyingdesirousgooeygushing

Example

More examples

"In nostalgic moments we may tend to think of childhood as a time of almost unbroken happiness."

Etymology

From nostalgia + -ic.

More for "nostalgic"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.