nostalgic adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.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 noun1 •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. — 1933 formsnostalgics · more nostalgic · most nostalgic