wished

Meaning

of Wish

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

intended needed wanted preferred desired fancy fancied bade aimed invited sought liked Lusted hungered

Examples

If you wished to be loved, love. Seneca

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. Livy

No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. Montesquieu

What I wished for happened not - What God willed happened to a dot. Persian Proverb