wishful

Speech parts

1. wishful - Adjective

2. wishful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.

Showing desire; as, wishful eyes.

Desirable; exciting wishes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

aspirant aspiring desirous fain potential determined committed driven willing ambitious keen energetic eager enthusiastic impractical
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Antonyms

passive inactive indifferent lazy sluggish unconcerned
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Phrases with the word

wishful hoping

Examples

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. Mary Martin

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy." Marvin Minsky

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. C. S. Lewis

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. Amy Tan

Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth. Ernest Mandel

Close letter words and terms

wished-for wishedly wisher wishful hoping wishful recycling wishful thinker