nostalgic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons

Etymology

From nostalgia + -ic.