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The synonyms of “Wishful” are: desirous, aspirant, aspiring, yearning, hungry, thirsty, avid, covetous
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “wishful” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| aspirant | Having ambitions to achieve something, typically to follow a particular career. An aspirant politician. |
| aspiring | Desiring or striving for recognition or advancement. An aspiring artist. |
| avid | (often followed by `for’) ardently or excessively desirous. An avid reader of science fiction. |
| covetous | Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else. He was never covetous before he met her. |
| desirous | Having or expressing desire for something. Desirous of high office. |
| hungry | Feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food. I was feeling ravenously hungry. |
| thirsty | Feeling a need to drink something. Encouragement is as water to a thirsty plant. |
| yearning | Involving or expressing yearning. A yearning hope. |
| auspice | A favorable omen. |
| bid | Make a statement during the auction undertaking to make a certain number of tricks with a stated suit as trumps if the bid is successful and one becomes the declarer. Bid farewell. |
| blessedness | A state of supreme happiness. |
| covet | Wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person. I covet one of their smart bags. |
| covetous | Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another’s advantages. She fingered the linen with covetous hands. |
| crave | Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for. I must crave your indulgence. |
| desideratum | Something that is needed or wanted. Integrity was a desideratum. |
| desire | Something desired. A man of many desires. |
| desperate | Desperately determined. Helpless and desperate as if at the end of his tether. |
| destiny | The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman. He believed in destiny. |
| envious | Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another’s advantages. I m envious of their happiness. |
| envy | A person or thing that inspires envy. I envy Jane her happiness. |
| fate | Decree or designate beforehand. Deserved a better fate. |
| foreordination | Being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind. |
| fortunate | Materially well off; prosperous. Fortunate son. |
| fortunately | By good fortune. Fortunately the weather was good. |
| fortune | A surprisingly high price or amount of money. Some malicious act of fortune keeps them separate. |
| grasping | Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. The lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings. |
| hope | A specific instance of feeling hopeful. In spite of his troubles he never gave up hope. |
| hopefully | With hope; in a hopeful manner. He rode on hopefully. |
| jealous | Feeling or showing a resentful suspicion that one’s partner is attracted to or involved with someone else. The men were proud of their achievements and jealous of their independence. |
| luck | Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions. They say luck is a lady. |
| lucky | Presaging or likely to bring good luck. You had a very lucky escape. |
| miraculous | Remarkable and bringing very welcome consequences. I felt amazed and grateful for our miraculous escape. |
| promise | Promise to undertake or give. I ve been promised to him for years. |
| superstition | Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural. She touched her locket for luck a superstition she d had since childhood. |
| tallow | Smear something especially the bottom of a boat with tallow. I tallowed my boats with our candles. |
| want | Hunt or look for want for a particular reason. If anyone wants out there s the door. |
| wishing | A specific feeling of desire. He was above all wishing and desire. |
| zeal | A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause. They disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority. |
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