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wishful

[ wish-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. having or showing a wish; desirous; longing.


wishful

/ ˈwɪʃfʊl /

adjective

  1. having wishes or characterized by wishing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈwishfulness, noun
  • ˈwishfully, adverb
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Other Words From

  • wishful·ly adverb
  • wishful·ness noun
  • un·wishful adjective
  • un·wishful·ly adverb
  • un·wishful·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wishful1

First recorded in 1515–25; wish + -ful
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Example Sentences

It’s a gold rushlet so far: lots of wishful thinking that half-forgotten old mines still have new gold to yield up a dozen or so decades after the first ore was dredged out there.

It’s wishful thinking that Congress and the federal government will put guardrails on AI to reduce the risk of catastrophic harms.

But that could turn out to be wishful thinking.

But not all hope is equally effective; wishful thinking often falls short.

From Salon

With that went the wishful thinking that had comforted Israel’s worried Western allies.

From BBC

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